Rhacheosaurus
Sign in to savethumb thumb|Historical reconstruction by Samuel Wendell Williston|Williston, 1914 thumb|Referred specimen Rhacheosaurus is an extinct genus of marine crocodyliform belonging to the family Metriorhynchidae. The genus was established by Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer in 1831 for skeletal remains from the Tithonian (Late Jurassic) of Germany. It was a relatively small reptile, measuring between long.
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thumb thumb|Historical reconstruction by Samuel Wendell Williston|Williston, 1914 thumb|Referred specimen Rhacheosaurus is an extinct genus of marine crocodyliform belonging to the family Metriorhynchidae. The genus was established by Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer in 1831 for skeletal remains from the Tithonian (Late Jurassic) of Germany. It was a relatively small reptile, measuring between long.
==History and classification==
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