Aeolodon

{{Short description|Extinct genus of reptiles}}

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| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|152|150|Tithonian}}

| image = Aeolodon priscus.png

| image_caption = Holotype specimen (NMHUK PV R 1086)

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| genus = Aeolodon

| species = priscus

| parent_authority = von Meyer, 1830

| authority = (von Söemmerring, 1815)

| synonyms =

• Crocodylus priscus von Söemmerring, 1814

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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.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)

Although previously synonymized with Steneosaurus, recent cladistic analysis considers it distantly related to the Steneosaurus type speciesŐsi 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. and the type species is A. priscus, named in 1830Von Meyer (1830). Von Meyer H. Isis Von Oken Jahrgang 1830. Band XXIII. Leipzig: Brockhaus; 1830. p. 517. and described in 2020.

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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{{Cite journal |last1=Young |first1=Mark Thomas |last2=De Andrade |first2=Marco Brandalise |date=2009-10-26 |title=What is Geosaurus? Redescription of Geosaurus giganteus (Thalattosuchia: Metriorhynchidae) from the Upper Jurassic of Bayern, Germany: WHAT IS GEOSAURUS? |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |language=en |volume=157 |issue=3 |pages=551–585 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00536.x|s2cid=83242976 |doi-access=free }} and the assigned specimen was discovered in the Canjuers conservation Lagerstätte of Var, France.{{cite journal |last1=Johnson |first1=Michela M. |last2=Young |first2=Mark T. |last3=Brusatte |first3=Stephen L. |title=The phylogenetics of Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia) and implications for their ecology and evolution |journal=PeerJ |date=2020 |volume=8 |pages=e9808 |doi=10.7717/peerj.9808|pmid=33083104 |pmc=7548081 |doi-access=free }}