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{{Short description|Extinct genus of reptiles}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = [[Miocene|Mid Miocene]] ([[Friasian]]-[[Laventan]])<br />~{{fossil range|16.3|11.8}}
| taxon = Balanerodus
| authority = Langston, 1965
| type_species = {{extinct}}'''''Balanerodus logimus'''''
| type_species_authority = Langston, 1965
}}

'''''Balanerodus''''' is an [[extinct]] [[monospecific]] [[genus]] of [[Alligatoridae|alligatorid]] [[crocodylia]]n.<ref>[[Robert L. Carroll|Carroll, R.L.]] 1988. ''[[Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution]]''. WH Freeman and Company, New York {{ISBN|0-7167-1822-7}}</ref> [[Fossil]]s have been found from the [[Fitzcarrald Arch]] in the [[Peruvian Amazon]] and the [[Honda Group, Colombia#La Victoria Formation|La Victoria Formation]] of the [[Honda Group, Colombia|Honda Group]] in [[Colombia]] and date back to the [[Friasian]] and [[Laventan]] regional [[South American land mammal age]]s of the [[Miocene|Middle Miocene]].<ref name=FWBalanerodus>[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=38425 ''Balanerodus''] at [[Fossilworks]].org</ref><ref>{{Citation|first=R.|last=Salas-Gismondi|editor-last=Díaz-Martínez|editor-first=E.|editor2-last=Rábano|editor2-first = I.|contribution = Middle Miocene Crocodiles From the Fitzcarrald Arch, Amazonian Peru|contribution-url = http://www.igme.es/4empsla/libro/62.pdf|title = 4th European Meeting on the Palaeontology and Stratigraphy of Latin America|year = 2007|pages=355–360|place=Madrid|publisher=Instituto Geológico y Minero de España|isbn = 978-84-7840-707-1|display-authors=etal}}</ref>

==Description==
It was an atypical crocodilian with mysterious acorn-like teeth and co-existed with many other crocodilians, which were more diverse at the time period than they are today, including terrestrial predatory [[Sebecidae|sebecid]] ''[[Langstonia]]'', the massive ''[[Purussaurus]]'', and flat headed duck-like ''[[Mourasuchus]]''. Its teeth and the diversity of crocodilians suggest it occupied a different niche than they did.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Croft |first1=Darin |title=Horned Armadillos and Rafting Monkeys |pages=93–94}}</ref> Another animal with acorn-like teeth is the [[Vaquita]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Vaquitas |url=https://marinebio.org/species/vaquitas/phocoena-sinus/ |website=MarineBio Conservation Society |date=18 May 2017 |access-date=8 November 2019}}</ref>

A 2015 study found teeth indistinguishable from those of ''Balanerodus'' among a set of ''Purussaurus'' teeth, suggesting that the two genera might be [[Synonym (taxonomy)|synonymous]].<ref>{{Citation | last1 = Salas-Gismondi | first1 = R. | last2 = Flynn| first2 = J. J. | last3 = Baby| first3 = P. | last4 = Tejada-Lara | first4 = J. V. | last5 = Wesselingh | first5 = F. P. | last6 = Antoine | first6 = P. O. | title = A Miocene hyperdiverse crocodylian community reveals peculiar trophic dynamics in proto-Amazonian mega-wetlands | journal = Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | volume = 282 | pages = 20142490 | year = 2015 | issue = 1804 | doi = 10.1098/rspb.2014.2490| doi-access = free | pmid = 25716785 | pmc = 4375856 }}</ref>

== References ==
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{{Extinct Crocodilia|A.}}
{{Paleontology in Colombia|state=collapsed}}
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[[Category:Alligatoridae]]
[[Category:Miocene crocodylomorphs]]
[[Category:Miocene reptiles of South America]]
[[Category:Friasian]]
[[Category:Colloncuran]]
[[Category:Laventan]]
[[Category:Neogene Colombia]]
[[Category:Fossils of Colombia]]
[[Category:Honda Group, Colombia]]
[[Category:Neogene Peru]]
[[Category:Fossils of Peru]]
[[Category:Fossil taxa described in 1965]]
[[Category:Prehistoric pseudosuchian genera]]

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