†Hesperogavialis cruxenti Bocquentin Villanueva and Buffetaut 1981 (crocodilian)
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Reptilia - Crocodylia - Gavialidae
Full reference: J. Bocquentin Villanueva and E. Buffetaut. 1981. Hesperogavialis cruxenti n.gen., n. sp., nouveau Gavialide (Crocodylia, Eusuchia) du Miocene Superieur (Huayquerien) d'Urumaco (Venezuela). Geobios 14(3):415-419
Belongs to Hesperogavialis according to D. Riff et al. 2010
See also Kraus 1998
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MHC 320, a maxilla. Its type locality is El Mamón, 70 km east of Coro, which is in a Miocene terrestrial mudstone in the Urumaco Formation of Venezuela.
Ecology: carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Venezuela (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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