Figure 17. Comparative plate of thalattosuchian skulls in lateral view. A, non-neothalattosuchian Plagiophthalmosuchus gracilirostris, paratype NHMUK PV OR 15500; B, the teleosaurid teleosauroid Mystriosaurus laurillardi, referred specimen NHMUK PV OR 14781 (holotype of Steneosaurus brevior); C, the early diverging metriorhynchoid Pelagosaurus typus, referred specimen NHMUK PV OR 32599; D the metriorhynchid 'Metriorhynchus' brachyrhynchus, referred specimen NHMUK PV R 3804 (holotype of 'Met'. cultridens). Highlighting that only teleosauroids had dorsolaterally oriented orbits (convergent with extant crocodylians), and that orbit size dramatically increased within Metriorhynchoidea.

Published as part of Young, Mark T., Wilberg, Eric W., Johnson, Michela M., Herrera, Yanina, Brandalise, Marco de Andrade, Brignon, Arnaud, Sachs, Sven, Abel, Pascal, Foffa, Davide, Fernández, Marta S., Vignaud, Patrick, Cowgill, Thomas & Brusatte, Stephen L., 2024, The history, systematics, and nomenclature of Thalattosuchia (Archosauria: Crocodylomorpha), pp. 547-617 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 200 (2) on page 588, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad165, http://zenodo.org/record/11241243