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A 1.2 cm long Steneosaurus tooth (crocodile) from the lower Jurassic from the quarry Kromer near Holzmaden (Germany).

That black fossil around the tooth is petrified wood.

 

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  • Taken with Canon Canon PowerShot SX730 HS
  • Focal Length 4.3 mm
  • Exposure Time 1/125
  • f Aperture f/4.0
  • ISO Speed 80

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The machimosaurids from the Early Jurassic of southern Germany formerly referred to Steneosaurus are now placed in their own genera (Macrospondylus, Mystriosaurus, and Plagiophthalmosuchus) (see Sachs et al. 2019; Johnson et al. 2020). For a long time, Steneosaurus was a wastebasket genus for several non-Teleosaurus, non-Machimosaurus teleosauroids, but Steneosaurus is now restricted to the type species S. rostromajor from the Middle Jurassic (Callovian) of Normandy, France (Aeolodon and Sericodon were reinstated as valid genera around the same time that "Steneosaurus" megarhinus was given the new genus Bathysuchus). The question is whether the tooth is Macrospondylus, Mystriosaurus, or Plagiophthalmosuchus.

 

Johnson, M.M.; Young, M.T.; Brusatte, S.L. (2020). The phylogenetics of Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia) and implications for their ecology and evolution. PeerJ 8: e9808. doi:10.7717/peerj.9808.

 

Sachs, S.; Johnson, M.M.; Young, M.T.; Abel, P. (2019). The mystery of Mystriosaurus: Redescribing the poorly known Early Jurassic teleosauroid thalattosuchians Mystriosaurus laurillardi and Steneosaurus breviorActa Palaeontologica Polonica 64 (3): 565–579. doi:10.4202/app.00557.2018.

 

 

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