Gavialinum
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic,
Hypothetical life reconstruction of Gavialinum rhodani
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sauropsida
Subclass:
Diapsida
Infraclass:
Archosauromorpha
(unranked):
Mesoeucrocodylia
Suborder:
†Thalattosuchia
Family:
†Teleosauridae
Genus:
†Gavialinum

Lortet, 1892
Binomial name
†Gavialinum rhodoni
Lortet, 1892

Gavialinum is an extinct genus of teleosaurid thalattosuchian. The type species is Gavialinum rhodoni.

Distribution

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

Description

Gavialinum rhodoni 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 rhodoni occurred much earlier than any crocodilian. 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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