Heckelodes

Galeodes priscus was named by Johann J. Heckel in 1854 for a skin impression (containing dermal denticles) from the Chiavon [it] locality in Italy.^[2] The holotype is located at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Verona [it].^[4] The original genus name was preoccupied by the solifugid Galeodes^[3] and was replaced by Heckelodes in 2025.^[1]

In 1889, Francesco Bassani reassigned the species to Galeocerdo and referred 2 teeth and 13 vertebrae from the same locality.^[4] That synonymy was accepted by other researchers like Arthur S. Woodward,^[5] Errol I. White and James A. Moy-Thomas,^[6] and Henry W. Fowler.^[7] However, this material has no overlap and is possibly chimaeric; one tooth is similar to Physogaleus and the vertebrae could be from a lamniform.^[1] H. priscus cannot be identified as a species of Galeocerdo based on its holotype.^[8]