Also anglicized steneosaur. [mod.L., badly formed (after Teleosaurus) on Gr. στενό-ς narrow + σαῦρος lizard.] A fossil genus of saurians characterized by a narrow beak. Hence Steneosaurian a., belonging to this genus.
1836. Buckland, Geol. & Min. consid. (1837), I. 252, note. M. Geoffroy St. Hilaire has arranged the fossil Saurians with long and narrow beaks, like that of the Gavial, under the two new genera, Teleosaurus and Steneosaurus.
1869. Hulke in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc., XXVI. 168. Dr. Rolleston … informs me that these bones are also shown in a cast of the Honfleur (Geneva) Steneosaur in the Oxford Museum, and that the relations of the bones in the upper surface of a Steneosaurian skull from Shotover exactly correspond with those figured in the ‘Ossemens Fossiles.’
1896. H. Woodward, Guide Fossil Reptiles Brit. Mus., 6. The old typeof long and slender-jawed Teleosaurs and Steneosaurs.
