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Gracilineustes

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Kingdom
  
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Chordata

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Sauropsida

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Gracilineustes is an extinct genus of marine crocodyliform that lived in the oceans during the Middle to Late Jurassic. Gracilineustes was a carnivore that spent much, if not all, its life out at sea.

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Discovery and species

Fossil specimens referrable to Gracilineustes are known from Middle-Late Jurassic deposits of England and France.

Valid species

  • G. leedsi: Western Europe (England) of the Middle Jurassic (Callovian); Metriorhynchus laeve is a junior synonym.
  • G. acutus: Western Europe (France) of the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian)
  • References

    Gracilineustes Wikipedia


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