Reptilia - Crocodylia - Gavialidae
Alternative combination: Gavialis colombianus
Full reference: W. Langston. 1965. Fossil crocodilians from Colombia and the Cenozoic history of the Crocodilia in South America. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 52:1-169
Belongs to Gryposuchus according to R. Salas-Gismondi et al. 2016
See also Langston and Gasparini 1997, Puértolas et al. 2011, Riff and Aguilera 2008 and Riff et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Gryposuchus croizati, Gryposuchus jessei, Gryposuchus neogaeus, Gryposuchus pachakamue
Type specimen: UCMP 41136, a partial skull. Its type locality is Coyaima 7, which is in a Laventan terrestrial sandstone/claystone in Colombia.
Ecology: carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Colombia (7 collections), Peru (1)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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