Eoneustes

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Kingdom Animalia Class Reptilia Superfamily †Metriorhynchoidea		Phylum Chordata Suborder †Thalattosuchia Rank Genus
Similar Gracilineustes, Teleidosaurus, Platysuchus, Suchodus, Purranisaurus

Eoneustes (meaning "dawn swimmer") is an extinct genus of metriorhynchoid crocodyliform from Middle Jurassic (late Bajocian to early Bathonian stage) deposits of France. Eoneustes was a carnivore that lived in the oceans and spent much, if not all, its life out at sea.

Discovery and species

E. bathonicus: Western Europe (France) of the Middle Jurassic (early Bathonian). It is known from holotype from Calvados of Normandy, that lost during the Second World War.

E. gaudryi: Western Europe (France) of the Middle Jurassic (late Bajocian to early Bathonian). It is known from the holotype NHM R.3353, a partial skull from Côte d’Or, Burgundy and the referred specimen from which housed at Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, F.S.L. 330210, another partial skull from Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France.

References

Eoneustes Wikipedia

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