Genus: Suchodus LYDEKKER, 1890
Etymology: 'Crocodile tooth', Greek, suchos, for 'Sobek' The Ancient Egyptian Crocodile god), Greek, odus, "tooth."

Species: durobrivensis LYDEKKER, 1890
= Metriorhynchus durobrivense (LYDEKKER, 1890) ANDREWS, 1913
Etymology: 'Crocodile-toothed from Durobrivae'.

Holotype: NHM (BMNH) R1994

Locality: Near Water Newton (now within Peterborough), Cambridgeshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Middle Oxford Clay Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Jason-lamberti and coronatum ammonite zones.

Age: Callovian Stage, Upper Dogger Epoch, Middle Jurassic.

Material: Symphysial portion of a mandible lacking teeth.

Referred material:

Number: Not given: Tooth.

 

ANDREWS, 1913

Locality:

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age:

Material:

NHM (BMNH) R2039: Imperfect skull wanting the occipital, premaxillary, and palatine regions, also an imperfect left ramus of the mandible.

NHM (BMNH) R2618: Skull with articulated mandible, atlas axis, 4 cervical, 14 dorsal, 2 sacral and numerous caudal vertebrae, cervical and dorsal ribs, left ilium, pubes, femora, tibia, fibula and isolated pes bones of a juvenile.

NHM (BMNH) R3321: Incomplete skull.

PETMG (CMP) R19: Incomplete skull lacking rostrum.

 

GONI

Locality: Cari-Lauquen, costa del rio Barrancas, Mendoza province, Argentina.

Horizon: Vaca Muerta Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Jurassic or Early Cretaceous.

Material:

Museo de Historia Natural, San Rafael, Mendoza, PV-344: Fragment of a rostrum.

 

LYDEKKER, 1890

Locality: Near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Oxford Clay.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Callovian Stage, Upper Dogger Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

BMNH R1711: Fragmentary skull.

 

='Metriorhynchus' cf. 'M.' brachyrhynchus SCHWAB, YOUNG, HERRERA, WITMER, WALSH, KATSAMENIS & BRUSATTE, 2021

Locality: Vaches Noires, pres de Villers-sur-Mer, Calvados Department, Normandy, France.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Callovian Stage, Upper Dogger Epoch, Middle Jurassic-Early Oxforidan Stage, Early Malm Epoch, Early Late Jurassic.

Material:

NHMUK PV OR (old BMNH) 32617: Fragmentary skull and braincase.

 

WENZ, 1970

Locality: Houlgate Villers, Calvados Department, Normandy, France.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Callovian Stage, Upper Dogger Epoch, Middle Jurassic.

Material:

Number: Not given: Almost complete skull.

 

= Metriorhynchus cf. dubrobrivensis WENZ, 1970

Locality: Vaches Noires, pres de Villers-sur-Mer, Calvados Department, Normandy, France.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Callovian Stage, Upper Dogger Epoch, Middle Jurassic.

Material:

Number: Not given: Fragmentary skull.

Metriorhynchus hstifer

Referred material:

SAUVAGE, 1900

Locality: Fumel, Lot-et-Garonne Department, France.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Jurassic.

Material:

Number: Not given:

 

= Metriorhynchus cf. durobrivensis VIGNAUD, 1993

Locality: La Cueille Quarry, Poitou, France.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy: Gracilis Zone.

Age: Lower Callovian Stage, Upper Dogger Epoch, Early Jurassic.

Material:

LPP.B.1: Skull.

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Species: brachyrhynchus (DESLONGCHAMPS, 1868) YOUNG, BRUSATTE, RUTA & DE ANDRADE, 2010
Etymology:
= Teleosaurus brachyrhynchus DESLONGCHAMPS, 1868
= Metriorhynchus brachyrhynchus (DESLONGCHAMPS, 1868) EUDES-DESLONGCHAMPS, 1869

Holotype: Lost during World War II.

Locality: Calvados Department, Normandy, France.

Horizon: Oxford Clay Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Oxfordian Stage, Lower Malm Epoch, Middle Jurassic.

Material: Imperfect skull.

Neotype: NHM R.3700

Locality: England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Oxfordian Stage, Lower Malm Epoch, Middle Jurassic.

Material: Skull lacking tip of the maxilla.

Neotype after ANDREWS, 1913

Referred material:

NHM (BMNH) R3699, CMP R176: Skulls.

NHM (BMNH) R3939: Imperfect skull and 8 distorted vertebrae.

YOUNG, BRUSATTE, RUTA & DE ANDRADE, 2010

CAMSM J64267: Mandibular rami from a large individual.

GLAHM V978: Skull with mandible.

GLAHM V993: Skull, 4 cervical vertebrae, 13 dorsal vertebrae, 2 sacral vertebrae, 3 caudal vertebrae, dorsal ribs, pubes, right ilium, ischia, and left femur.

GLAHM V995: Skull, mandible, 3 cervical vertebrae, 16 dorsal vertebrae, cervical ribs, pubes, ilia, left ischium, femora and isolated manus bones.

GLAHM V1145: Left coracoid, proximal half of the right coracoid, right humerus, right ilium, left femur and 7 tooth crowns.

LEICT G418.1956.13: Skull fragment, ischia, femora, and numerous ribs and chevrons.

 

LEEDS

Locality: Dogsthorpe, Peterbourgh, Cambridgeshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Lower Oxford Clay.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Callovian Stage, Upper Dogger Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material: LEEDS Collection.

No. 164, 165: Skulls missing anterior tip.

 

= Metriorhynchus aff. M. brachyrhynchus GASPARINI, CICHOWOLSKI & LAZO, 2005

Locality: Chacay Melehue section, 37°15.799'S, 70°29.555'W, 27 km northwest of Chos Malal Village, on the margin of the provincial route 43, at the southenr end of the Cordillera del Viento, Neuquen Province, Patagonia, Argentina.

Horizon: Upper Los Molles Formation.

Biostratigaphy:

Age: Upper Bathonian Stage, Middle Dogger Epoch, Middle Jurassic.

Material:

PV-6913-MOZ: Fragmentary skull, mandible, and vertebral centra.

 

= Metriorhynchus cf. brachyrhynchus VIGNAUD, 1993

Locality: Migne-Auxances Quarries, Poitou, France.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy: Coronatum zone.

Age: Middle Callovian Stage, Upper Dogger Epoch, Early Jurassic.

Material:

LPP.M.22: Skull.


= Metriorhynchus cultridens ANDREWS, 1913
Etymology:

Holotype: BMNH R3804

Locality: Close to Peterborough, Cambridgeshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Oxford Clay.

Biostratigraphy: Jason and coronatum zones.

Age: Callovian Stage, Upper Dogger Epoch, Middle Jurassic.

Material: Skull, mandible, atlas, axis, 4 cervical, 16 dorsal, 2 sacral, 37 caudal vertebrae, ilium, ischia, pubes, femora and some odd foot-bones.

Referred material:

BMNH R3541: Imperfect skull.