Teleosaurus

Teleosaurus

Taxobox
name = "Teleosaurus"
fossil_range = Fossil range|171|164 Bajocian - Bathonian



image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
unranked_ordo = Mesoeucrocodylia
subordo = Thalattosuchia
familia = Teleosauridae
genus = "Teleosaurus"
genus_authority = Geoffroy, 1825
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
*"T. cadomensis" (type)
*"T. geoffroyi"

"Teleosaurus" was an extinct genus of teleosaurid crocodylians that lived during the Middle Jurassic. It was approximately 3 metres (10 feet) in length.

It had highly elongate jaws, making "Teleosaurus" convergent upon the modern gharial. It lived in the ocean where it caught fish and cephalopods.


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