Seldsienean

Seldsienean
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic,
Holotype skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Crocodylomorpha
Suborder: Thalattosuchia
Family: Machimosauridae
Genus: Seldsienean
Johnson et al., 2020
Species:
S. megistorhynchus
Binomial name
Seldsienean megistorhynchus
(Eudes-Deslongchamps, 1866)
Synonyms

Seldsienean is an extinct genus of teleosauroid thalattosuchian from the Middle Jurassic of England and France. The only known species, S. megistorhynchus, is known from remains from the Calcaire de Caen and the Cornbrash Formation. In life, Seldsienean was a marine reptile that would have fed mostly on fish and other small animals.