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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Crocodylus sinhaleyus n. sp.
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