Sericodon

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title: "Sericodon" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["thalattosuchia", "prehistoric-pseudosuchian-genera", "prehistoric-marine-crocodylomorphs", "late-jurassic-crocodylomorphs", "tithonian-life", "late-jurassic-reptiles-of-europe", "fossil-taxa-described-in-1845"] description: "Extinct genus of reptiles" topic_path: "general/thalattosuchia" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sericodon" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Extinct genus of reptiles ::

| fossil_range = Tithonian ~ | image = Sericodon.png | image_caption = Referred specimens SMF R 4318 (A) and LMH 16646 (B) | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Sericodon jugleri | authority = von Meyer, 1845 | parent_authority = von Meyer, 1845

Sericodon is an extinct genus of teleosaurid crocodyliform from the Late Jurassic (Tithonian) of Germany and Switzerland. The genus contains a single species, S. jugleri. another teleosaurid.

Taxonomy

Sericodon was named for teeth from Late Jurassic deposits in Hanover, Germany, and Solothurn, Switzerland (Reuchenette Formation) by Hermann von Meyer in 1845. The genus was later synonymized with Steneosaurus by Steel (1973), but new work suggests it might be a distinct genus after all.

In 2020 the genus was formally revived.

This simplified cladogram by Johnson et al. (2020) shows the updated location of Sericodon within Teleosauridae and Aeolodontinae:

|label1=Thalattosuchia |1={{clade |1=Metriorhynchoidea |label2=Teleosauroidea |2={{clade |1=Plagiophthalmosuchus |2={{clade |1=Machimosauridae |label2=Teleosauridae |2={{clade |1=Indosinosuchus kalasinensis |2={{clade |1={{clade |1=Chinese teleosauroid |2=Mystriosaurus }} |2={{clade |1=Indosinosuchus potamosiamensis |2={{clade |label1=Teleosaurinae |1={{clade |1=Teleosaurus |2=Platysuchus }} |label2=Aeolodontinae |2={{clade |1=Mycterosuchus |2={{clade |1=Aeolodon |2={{clade |1=Sericodon |2=Bathysuchus }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }}

References

References

1. ''Sericodon'' was placed in 'Clade T' (Aeolodontinae) and was found to be the [[sister taxon]] to ''[[Bathysuchus]]'',Schaefer, Püntener & Billon-Bruyat (2018) Schaefer K, Püntener C, Billon-Bruyat J-P. ''Vertébrés mésozoïques: crocodiliens (Catalogues du patrimoine paléontologique jurassien—A16)'' Porrentruy : Office de la culture, Paléontologie A16; 2018. p. 184.
2. Meyer, H, (1845), Note on fossil reptiles: Neües Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaontologie, 1845, p. 308-313.
3. Steel, Rodney (1973): Crocodylia. - In: KUHN, Oskar (ed.): Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie. Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology, 16: 1-116, figs. 1-33; Stuttgart, Portland-USA (Gustav Fischer Verlag).
4. Foffa D, Johnson MM, Young MT, Steel L, Brusatte SL. 2019. Revision of the Late Jurassic deep-water teleosauroid crocodylomorph ''Teleosaurus megarhinus'' Hulke, 1871 and evidence of pelagic adaptations in Teleosauroidea. PeerJ 7:e6646 http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6646
5. (2020). "The phylogenetics of Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia) and implications for their ecology and evolution". PeerJ.

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