Aeolodon

Aeolodon; Temporal range: Tithonian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	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, 1814)
Synonyms
	Crocodylus priscus von Söemmerring, 1814;

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]

References[edit]

^ Von Söemmerring (1814) Von Söemmerring ST. Über den Crocodilus priscus oder über ein in Baiern versteinert gefundenes Krokodil, Gavial der Vorwelt. Denkschriften der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München Classe. 1814;4:1–74. (in German)
^ Ősi A, Young MT, Galácz A, Rabi M. (2018) A new large-bodied thalattosuchian crocodyliform from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Hungary, with further evidence of the mosaic acquisition of marine adaptations in Metriorhynchoidea. PeerJ 6:e4668 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4668
^ Mueller-Töwe IJ. (2005). Phylogenetic relationships of the Thalattosuchia. Zitteliana A45: 211–213.
^ Von Meyer (1830). Von Meyer H. Isis Von Oken Jahrgang 1830. Band XXIII. Leipzig: Brockhaus; 1830. p. 517.
^ ^a ^b Johnson, Michela M.; Young, Mark T.; Brusatte, Stephen L. (2020). "The phylogenetics of Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia) and implications for their ecology and evolution". PeerJ. 8: e9808. doi:10.7717/peerj.9808. PMC 7548081. PMID 33083104.
^ Young, Mark Thomas; De Andrade, Marco Brandalise (2009-10-26). "What is Geosaurus? Redescription of Geosaurus giganteus (Thalattosuchia: Metriorhynchidae) from the Upper Jurassic of Bayern, Germany: WHAT IS GEOSAURUS?". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 157 (3): 551–585. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00536.x. S2CID 83242976.