''Clovesuurdameredeor'' (meaning "sea creature of

Closworth Closworth is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, south of Yeovil in the South Somerset district, on the border with Dorset. The village has a population of 220. The parish includes the villages of Pendomer and Sutton Bingham, the lo ...

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''Clovesuurda'' and the Old English ''meredeor'') is an extinct

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

machimosaurid Machimosauridae is an extinct family of teleosauroid thalattosuchian crocodyliforms. Text was copied from this source, which is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License The family was first identified in 2016, ...

teleosauroid Teleosauroidea is an extinct superfamily of thalattosuchia Thalattosuchia is a clade of marine crocodylomorphs from the Early Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous that had a cosmopolitan distribution. They are colloquially referred to as marine ...

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Bathonian In the geologic timescale the Bathonian is an age and stage of the Middle Jurassic. It lasted from approximately 168.3 Ma to around 166.1 Ma (million years ago). The Bathonian Age succeeds the Bajocian Age and precedes the Callovian Age. St ...

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The type species, ''C. stephani'', was originally named "''Steneosaurus''" ''stephani'' by

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in 1867. Vignaud (1995) considered ''S. stephani'' to be a minor synonym of '' Yvridiosuchus boutilieri'' (then still in the genus ''

Steneosaurus ''Steneosaurus'' (from el, στενός , 'narrow' and el, σαῦρος , '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 wa ...

''), 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.

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