Reptilia - Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
Full reference: M. L. Joleaud. 1920. Sur la présence d'un Gavialide du genre Tomistoma dans le Pliocène d'eau douce de l'Ethiopie. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences 70:816-818
Belongs to Euthecodon according to L. Ginsburg and E. Buffetaut 1978
Sister taxa: Euthecodon arambourgii, Euthecodon nitriae
Type specimen: Its type locality is Tomistoma brumpti type, which is in a Pliocene/Pleistocene terrestrial horizon in Ethiopia
Ecology: carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Kenya (22 collections)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Kenya (3)
• Pliocene of Kenya (5)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Kenya (1)
• Miocene of Kenya (1)
Total: 33 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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