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
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Archosauria
Clade:	Pseudosuchia
Clade:	Crocodylomorpha
Suborder:	†Thalattosuchia
Superfamily:	†Teleosauroidea
Family:	†Teleosauridae
Subfamily:	†Aeolodontinae
Genus:	†Aeolodon; von Meyer, 1830
Species:	†A. priscus
Binomial name
	†Aeolodon priscus; (von Söemmerring, 1815)
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]

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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]

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