''Clovesuurdameredeor'' (meaning "sea creature of Closworth"; from the

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''Clovesuurda'' and the

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''meredeor'') is an extinct

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of machimosaurid teleosauroid from the

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Cornbrash Formation of

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The type species, ''C. stephani'', was originally named "''Steneosaurus''" ''stephani'' by Hulke in 1867. Vignaud (1995) considered ''S. stephani'' to be a minor synonym of '' Yvridiosuchus boutilieri'' (then still in the genus ''

Steneosaurus ''Steneosaurus'' (from , 'narrow' and , 'lizard') is a dubious genus of teleosaurid crocodyliform from the Middle or Late Jurassic (Callovian or early Oxfordian) of France. The genus has been used as a wastebasket taxon for thalattosuchian ...

''), but Johnson (2019) and Johnson et al. (2020) discovered that ''S. stephani'' was a basal machimosaur that was separate from ''Yvridiosuchus'', erecting the genus ''Clovesuurdameredeor'' for this.

References

Thalattosuchia Fossil taxa described in 2020 Prehistoric pseudosuchian genera {{Paleo-archosaur-stub