Teleosaurus

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Teleosaurus
Fossil range: Early Jurassic
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Crocodylomorpha
(unranked) Mesoeucrocodylia
Family: Teleosauridae
Genus: Teleosaurus

Teleosaurus was an extinct genus of teleosaurid crocodylians that was approximately 3 metres (10 feet) long.

It had highly elongate jaws, making Teleosaurus convergent upon the modern gharial. It lived in the ocean where it caught fish and cephalopods.