Seldsienean
Seldsienean (Old English for "seldom seen one") in an extinct genus of machimosaurid thalattosuchian from the Middle Jurassic of England and France. It is known from the Calcaire de Caen and the Cornbrash Formation.
| Seldsienean Temporal range: Middle Jurassic, | |
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| Holotype skull | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
| Suborder: | †Thalattosuchia |
| Family: | †Machimosauridae |
| Genus: | †Seldsienean Johnson et al., 2020 |
| Species: | †S. megistorhynchus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Seldsienean megistorhynchus (Eudes-Deslongchamps, 1866) | |
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Its type species, S. megistorhynchus, was originally described as a species of Steneosaurus in 1866, but was given its own genus in 2020.
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