Eoneustes

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

'''''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.<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 from Calvados of Normandy, that was lost during the 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 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.<ref name=Youngetal10/>

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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