Gavialinum

Gavialinum
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic, Bathonian
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Hypothetical life reconstruction of Gavialinum rhodani
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauria
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Crocodylomorpha
Clade: Crocodyliformes
Suborder: †Thalattosuchia
Family: †Teleosauridae
Genus: †Gavialinum
Lortet, 1892
Type species
†Gavialinum rhodani
Lortet, 1892

Gavialinum is an extinct genus of teleosaurid thalattosuchian.

Distribution

Fossils have been found in France that date back to the Bathonian stage of the Middle Jurassic.[1]

Description

Gavialinum rhodani has a long, narrow snout, much like the current gavialids, from which the Gavialinum genus gets its name.[2] The two are not related, as Gavialinum rhodani occurred much earlier than any crocodilian.[citation needed] Gavialinum had 33 teeth on each jaw, for a total of 66.[3]

References

  1. ^ Lortet, 1894. Les reptiles fossiles du bassin du Rhone. Archives du Museum d'histoire naturelle de Lyon 4(139):12.
  2. ^ Mémoires de la Société géologique de France (in French). F.-G. Levrault. 1881. p. 2.
  3. ^ Reptiles of the Rhone basin (in French). H. Georg. 1892. p. 176.


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