Ieldraan
| Ieldraan Temporal range: Middle Jurassic,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Suborder: | †Thalattosuchia |
| Family: | †Metriorhynchidae |
| Subtribe: | †Geosaurina |
| Genus: | †Ieldraan Foffa et al., 2017 |
| Species: | †I. melkshanensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Ieldraan melkshanensis Foffa et al., 2017
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Ieldraan is an extinct genus of marine crocodyliform in the family Metriorhynchidae from the Jurassic (Callovian) period Oxford Clay Formation of England. The sole species in the genus is Ieldraan melkshanensis. Researchers have derived a body length estimate of 2.95 to 3.22 m (9.7 to 10.6 ft) based on a 55–60 cm (1 ft 10 in – 2 ft 0 in) long basicranium that was discovered during the 1870s.[1]
References
- ^ Foffa, D.; Young, M.T.; Brusatte, S.L.; Graham, M.R.; Steel, L. (2017). "A new metriorhynchid crocodylomorph from the Oxford Clay Formation (Middle Jurassic) of England, with implications for the origin and diversification of Geosaurini" (PDF). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 16 (13): 1–21. doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1367730. hdl:10141/622883. S2CID 135234906.
