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Metriorhynchoids Temporal range:
Early Jur****ic-Early Cretaceous, Toarcian–Aptian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Restoration of
Teleidosaurus calvadosii Scientific...
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Teleosaurids were
thalattosuchians closely related to the
fully aquatic metriorhynchoids, but were less
adapted to an open-ocean,
pelagic lifestyle. The family...
- thus well supported, the
exclusion of it from
either teleosauroids or
metriorhynchoids is less so. Only a
single synapomorphy unambiguously points towards...
- Allain, R.; Jalil, N.-E. (2024). "Integrative
paleophysiology of the
metriorhynchoid Pelagosaurus typus (Pseudosuchia, Thalattosuchia)". The Anatomical...
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Metriorhynchidae is an
extinct family of specialized,
aquatic metriorhynchoid crocodyliforms from the
Middle Jur****ic to the
Early Cretaceous period (Bajocian...
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Peipehsuchus is an
extinct genus of
metriorhynchoid crocodyliform from the
Early Jur****ic (Toarcian). The type species, P. teleorhinus, is
known from...
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whole survived into the
Early Cretaceous in
other parts of the world.
Metriorhynchoids, the
other major group of
marine crocodyliforms, were not strongly...
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Magyarosuchus is an
extinct monotypic genus of
metriorhynchoid described for the
first time from
fossils discovered in the
Kisgerecse Marl
Formation in...
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Opisuchus is an
extinct genus of
metriorhynchoid crocodyliform known from the
Middle Jur****ic
Opalinuston Formation of Germany. It
contains a
single species...
- like whales, ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs,
mesosaurs and the Jur****ic
metriorhynchoids,
distant cousins of crocodilians. However,
marine habits are dismissed...
