Seldsienean
| Seldsienean Temporal range: Middle Jurassic,
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| 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
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| Binomial name | |
| †Seldsienean megistorhynchus (Eudes-Deslongchamps, 1866)
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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.