Kuruvita (Pleistocene of Sri Lanka)

Where: Sri Lanka (6.8° N, 80.4° E: paleocoordinates 6.4° N, 80.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Deraniyagala

Primary reference: N. Chabrol, A. M. Jukar, R. Patnaik and P. D. Mannion. 2024. Osteology of Crocodylus palaeindicus from the late Miocene–Pleistocene of South Asia and the phylogenetic relationships of crocodyloids. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 22(1):2313133 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39210: authorized by John Hunter, entered by Dina Ehrenburg on 23.05.2004, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylus sinhaleyus n. sp. Deraniyagala 1958 crocodilian
tooth