Gracilineustes leedsi, (ANDREWS, 1913), 2010

Young, Mark T., Brusatte, Stephen L., Ruta, Marcello & Andrade, Marco Brandalise De, 2010, The evolution of Metriorhynchoidea (mesoeucrocodylia, thalattosuchia): an integrated approach using geometric morphometrics, analysis of disparity, and biomechanics, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) 158 (4), pp. 801-859 : 850-851

GRACILINEUSTES LEEDSI (ANDREWS, 1913) COMB. NOV.

1913 Metriorhynchus leedsi sp. nov.; Andrews

1913 Metriorhynchus laeve sp. nov.; Andrews

1936 Metriorhynchus laevis [sic]; Kunh

1968 Metriorhynchus loeve [sic]; Wenz Holotype: NHM R.3540, dorsoventrally crushed skull, with premaxilla not preserved.

Type locality: Peterborough, Cambrigeshire , England (middle Oxford Clay Formation) .

Etymology: ‘Leeds’ gracile swimmer’. Named after Alfred Leeds, a quarry owner and amateur palaeontologist, from whose quarry a diverse assemblage of Oxford Clay marine reptiles were discovered.

Geological range: Middle–late Callovian (calloviense– lamberti ammonite zones).

Geographical range: Cambridgeshire and Wiltshire, England .

Referred specimens: CAMSM J64297 , skull with mandible ; GLAHM V973 , skull with mandible ; GLAHM V974 , incomplete skull ; GLAHM V975 , incomplete skull; NHM R.2031, incomplete skull; NHM R.2042, skull, mandible, atlas axis, three cervical vertebrae, and numerous crushed vertebrae and ribs; NHM R.3014, complete skull, mandible, atlas axis, five cervical vertebrae, 16 dorsal vertebrae, two sacral vertebrae, 35 caudal vertebrae, cervical and dorsal ribs, right coracoids and scapula, humeri, right femur, tibia, fibula, and almost complete tarsus and pes, and numerous chevrons; NHM R.3015, complete skull, mandible, atlas axis, five cervical vertebrae, 16 dorsal vertebrae, cervical and dorsal ribs, coracoid, scapula, humerus, femur (holotype of M. laeve ); NHM R.3899, incomplete skull; NHM R.5793, incomplete skull; PETMG R24 , incomplete skull ; PETMG R72 , incomplete skull .