Definition of Teleosauroids. Meaning of Teleosauroids. Synonyms of Teleosauroids

- Teleosauroidea is an extinct superfamily of thalattosuchian crocodyliforms living from the Early Jur****ic to the Early Cretaceous. It is phylogenetically...
- contains two major subgroupings, the Teleosauroidea and Metriorhynchoidea. Teleosauroids are not greatly specialised for oceanic life, with back osteoderms similar...
- Teleosauroidea. However, as teleosauroid relationships and diversity was better studied in the 21st century, the division of teleosauroids into two distinct evolutionary...
- larger than the teleosaurids. Machimosauridae is a diverse group of teleosauroids, phylogenetically defined in the PhyloCode by Mark T. Young and colleagues...
- evidence that such teleosauroids were present outside of Western Europe during the Oxfordian. Scheyer et al. (2024) describe teleosauroid tooth crowns ****ociated...
- hypothesis is still a matter of debate. European teleosauroids did indeed suffer total extinction, but teleosauroids as a whole survived into the Early Cretaceous...
- Lemmysuchus L. obtusidens A teleosauroid belonging to the Machimosauridae Charitomenosuchus C. leedsi A machimosaurid teleosauroid Steneosaurus S. edwardsi...
- the Middle Jur****ic Callovian of England and France. Like many other teleosauroids from Europe, it has had a convoluted taxonomic history. "Steneosaurus"...
- formally recognised in 2019. Its snout was not as elongated as some other teleosauroids (mesorostrine), and the shape of its jaws and teeth suggest that it...
- Thalattosuchia is thus well supported, the exclusion of it from either teleosauroids or metriorhynchoids is less so. Only a single synapomorphy unambiguously...