# Eoneustes

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{{Short description|Extinct genus of reptiles}}
{{Italic title}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| name = ''Eoneustes''
| taxon = Eoneustes
| fossil_range = [Bajocian](/source/Bajocian) - [Bathonian](/source/Bathonian), {{Fossil range|168.5|167}}
| authority = Young ''et al.'', [2010](/source/2010_in_paleontology)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 
* ''E. bathonicus'' <small>(Mercier, 1933 [originally ''[Metriorhynchus](/source/Metriorhynchus)''])</small>
* ''E. gaudryi'' <small>(Collot, 1905 [originally ''[Teleidosaurus](/source/Teleidosaurus)'']) ([type](/source/type_species))</small>
}}

'''''Eoneustes''''' (meaning "dawn swimmer") is an [extinct](/source/extinct) [genus](/source/genus) of [metriorhynchoid](/source/metriorhynchoid) [crocodyliform](/source/crocodyliform) from [Middle Jurassic](/source/Middle_Jurassic) (late [Bajocian](/source/Bajocian) to early [Bathonian](/source/Bathonian) stage) deposits of [France](/source/France). ''Eoneustes'' was a [carnivore](/source/carnivore) that lived in the oceans and spent much, if not all, its life out at sea.<ref name=YoungAndrade09>{{cite journal|author1=Mark T. Young |author2=Marco Brandalise de Andrade |year=2009 |title=What is ''Geosaurus''? Redescription of ''Geosaurus giganteus'' (Thalattosuchia: Metriorhynchidae) from the Upper Jurassic of Bayern, Germany |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=157 |issue=3 |pages=551–585 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00536.x |doi-access=free }}</ref>

==Discovery and species==
*''E. bathonicus'':<ref name="Mercier, 1933">Mercier J. 1933. Contribution l’étude des Métriorhynchidés (crocodiliens). ''Annales de Paléontologie'' '''22''': 99-119.</ref> Western Europe (France) of the Middle Jurassic (early Bathonian). It is known from [holotype](/source/holotype) from [Calvados](/source/Calvados_(department)) of [Normandy](/source/Normandy), that was lost during the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War).<ref name=Youngetal10>{{cite journal|author1=Mark T. Young |author2=Stephen L. Brusatte |author3=Marcello Ruta |author4=Marco Brandalise de Andrade |year=2010 |title=The evolution of Metriorhynchoidea (Mesoeucrocodylia, Thalattosuchia): an integrated approach using geometrics morphometrics, analysis of disparity and biomechanics |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |issue=4 |volume=158 |pages=801–859 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00571.x |doi-access= }}</ref>
*''E. gaudryi'':<ref name="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.</ref> Western Europe (France) of the Middle Jurassic (late Bajocian to early Bathonian). It is known from the holotype NHM R.3353, a partial [skull](/source/skull) from Côte d’Or, [Burgundy](/source/Burgundy_(French_region)) 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.<ref name=Youngetal10/>

==References==
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Category:Middle Jurassic crocodylomorphs
Category:Prehistoric pseudosuchian genera
Category:Prehistoric marine crocodylomorphs
Category:Fossil taxa described in 2010
Category:Middle Jurassic reptiles of Europe
Category:Thalattosuchia

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