Teleidosaurus

Teleidosaurus

Taxobox
name = "Teleidosaurus"
fossil_range = Fossil range|168|163Bajocian - Bathonian



image_width=250px
image_caption = restoration of "Teleidosaurus calvadosii"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
subclassis = Diapsida
infraclassis = Archosauromorpha
unranked_ordo = Mesoeucrocodylia
subordo = Thalattosuchia
familia = Metriorhynchidae
genus = "Teleidosaurus"
genus_authority = Eudes-Deslongchamps, 1869 Eudes-Deslongchamps, E. 1869. Notice sur les animaux fossiles de la famille des Téléosauriens recueillis en Normandie. "Mémoires Acad. Imp. Sci. et Arts et Belles-Lettres": 31-80.]
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "T. calvadosii" (type)
(Eudes-Deslongchamps, 1866) Eudes-Deslongchamps, J.A. 1866. Description d'une espèce inédite de Téléosaure des environs de Caen, le "Teleosaurus calvadosii". "Bulletin Soc. Linn. Normandie" 2 (1): 112-118.] Eudes-Deslongchamps, 1869
* "T. bathonicus" (Mercier, 1933) Mercier J. 1933. Contribution l’étude des Métriorhynchidés (crocodiliens). "Annales de Paléontologie" 22: 99-119.]
* "T. gaudryi" Collot, 1905 Collot L. 1905. Reptile jurassique ("Teleidosaurus gaudryi") trouvé à St-Seine-l'Abbaye (Côte-d'Or). "Memoire Acad. Sci. Arts et Belles-Lettres" 10: 41-45.]

"Teleidosaurus" was the most plesiomorphic genus of marine crocodylian within the family Metriorhynchidae, Young MT. 2007. The evolution and interrelationships of Metriorhynchidae (Crocodyliformes, Thalattosuchia). "Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology" 27 (3): 170A.] and is known from the Bajocian and Bathonian of the Middle Jurassic. The name "Teleidosaurus" means "Complete lizard", and is derived from the Greek "Teleidos"- ("complete") and Polytonic| -"sauros" ("lizard").

Species

The species within "Teleidosaurus" include: the type species "T. calvadosii", "T. bathonicus" and "T. gaudryi" from the Middle Jurassic of France. The type species was named "Teleosaurus Calvadosii" [Sic] by Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps in 1866; however, it was his son, Eugène Eudes-Deslongchamps who erected the generic name "Teleidosaurus" later in 1869 for "Teleosaurus calvadosii". Recent phylogenetic analyses however, do not support the monophyly of "Teleidosaurus".Mueller-Töwe IJ. 2005. Phylogenetic relationships of the Thalattosuchia. "Zitteliana" A45: 211–213.]

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