| Neosteneosaurus | |
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| Holotype and assigned specimen | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
| Suborder: | † Thalattosuchia |
| Family: | † Machimosauridae |
| Subfamily: | † Machimosaurinae |
| Genus: | † Neosteneosaurus Johnson et al., 2020 |
| Species: | †N. edwardsi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Neosteneosaurus edwardsi (Eudes-Deslongchamps, 1868) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Neosteneosaurus is a genus of machimosaurid, known from the Middle Jurassic Oxford Clay of the UK, and Marnes de Dives, France. The type species, N. edwardsi, was originally named as a species of Steneosaurus in 1868, [1] but was moved to its own genus in 2020. Steneosaurus durobrivensis and Steneosaurus hulkei are considered junior synonyms. [2]
In 2015, it was estimated at more than 7 m (23 ft) in length. [3] In 2016, this estimate was revised down to 6.6 m (22 ft), but even with such measurement, this animal remains to be the largest known Middle Jurassic crocodylomorph. [4]
