Gavialinum

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
Species
  • G. rhodoni Lortet, 1892 (type)

Gavialinum is an extinct genus of teleosaurid thalattosuchian.

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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