Thalattosuchians · 01. April 2020

Contrasting to the late Upper Jurassic lithographic limestones, the early Upper Jurassic strata of Southern Germany are comparatively rare in marine reptile remains. In my first study as a leading author we described the remains of two large-bodied marine crocodiles from the early Kimmeridgian of Southern Germany, showing they belong to a novel branch of metriorhynchids, preliminarily called the "E-clade".