Enaliosuchus macrospondylus, Young & Brusatte & Ruta & Andrade, 2010

Young, Mark T., Brusatte, Stephen L., Ruta, Marcello & Andrade, Marco Brandalise De, 2010, The evolution of Metriorhynchoidea (mesoeucrocodylia, thalattosuchia): an integrated approach using geometric morphometrics, analysis of disparity, and biomechanics, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) 158 (4), pp. 801-859 : 853

CRICOSAURUS MACROSPONDYLUS (KOKEN, 1883) YOUNG & ANDRADE, 2009

1883 Enaliosuchus macrospondylus gen. et sp. nov.;

Koken 2006 Metriorhynchus sp. ; Karl et al. 2009 Cricosaurus macrospondylus comb. nov.; Young

& Andrade

Holotype: HMN R3636.1 – 6 , atlas axis, and numerous cervical and dorsal vertebrae.

Type locality: Hills near Osterwald, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Etymology: ‘Ring lizard with large vertebrae’.

Geological range: Lower–upper Valanginian (campylotoxus–furcillata ammonite zones).

Geographical range: Hautes Alpes, France, and Lower Saxony, Germany.

Referred specimen: RNGHP 990201, dorsoventrally crushed skull, lacking occipital region.