Seldsienean

Seldsienean
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic,
Holotype skull
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauria
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Crocodylomorpha
Suborder: Thalattosuchia
Family: Machimosauridae
Genus: Seldsienean
Johnson et al., 2020
Species:
S. megistorhynchus
Binomial name
Seldsienean megistorhynchus
(Eudes-Deslongchamps, 1866)
Synonyms

Seldsienean (Old English for "seldom seen one") is an extinct genus of machimosaurid thalattosuchian from the Middle Jurassic of England and France. It is known from the Calcaire de Caen and the Cornbrash Formation.

Its type species, S. megistorhynchus, was originally described as a species of Steneosaurus in 1866, but was given its own genus in 2020.