Steneosaurus obtusidens
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Lemmysuchus is a genus of machimosaurid thalattosuchian from the Middle Jurassic Callovian of England and France. Like many other teleosauroids from Europe, it has had a convoluted taxonomic history.
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It sits within the topics Fossils of France, Fossils of Great Britain and Fossil taxa described in 2017.
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Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Steneosaurus
- Named after
- Lemmy
- Image
- A descriptive catalogue of the marine reptiles of the Oxford clay. Based on the Leeds Collection in the British Museum (Natural History), London (1910) (20252762483).jpg
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Lemmysuchus is a genus of machimosaurid thalattosuchian from the Middle Jurassic Callovian of England and France. Like many other teleosauroids from Europe, it has had a convoluted taxonomic history.
==History== upright|thumb|left|Skull and other elements of the holotype specimen "Steneosaurus" obtusidens was first described from the Callovian-aged Oxford Clay Formation of Cambridgeshire, southeastern England on the basis of a partial skeleton (NHMUK PV R 3168). Characters cited as diagnostic for "S." obtusidens included: short rostrum (preorbital length 52 percent of total skull length); teeth blunt and rounded at the tips; armor adorned with elongate pit ornamentation.
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