Aeolodon Temporal range: | |
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Holotype specimen (NMHUK PV R 1086) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Suborder: | † Thalattosuchia |
Superfamily: | † Teleosauroidea |
Family: | † Teleosauridae |
Subfamily: | † Aeolodontinae |
Genus: | † Aeolodon von Meyer, 1830 |
Species: | †A. priscus |
Binomial name | |
†Aeolodon priscus (von Söemmerring, 1815) | |
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Aeolodon is an extinct genus of teleosaurid crocodyliform reptile from the Late Jurassic (Tithonian) of Germany and France that was initially named as a species of Crocodylus in 1814. [1] Although previously synonymized with Steneosaurus , recent cladistic analysis considers it distantly related to the Steneosaurus type species [2] [3] and the type species is A. priscus, named in 1830 [4] and described in 2020. [5]
The holotype of Aeolodon priscus was found in the Mörnsheim Formation of Daiting, Bavaria, Germany, in the same quarry that produced the Geosaurus giganteus holotype [6] and the assigned specimen was discovered in the Canjuers conservation Lagerstätte of Var, France. [5]