Tomistoma tandoni Sahni and Mishra 1975 (false gharial)

Reptilia - Crocodylia - Gavialidae

Full reference: A. Sahni and V. P. Mishra. 1975. Lower Tertiary vertebrates from western India. Monograph of the Palaeontological Society of India 3:1-48

Belongs to Tomistoma according to Sahni and Mishra 1975

Sister taxa: Tomistoma borisovi, Tomistoma brumpti, Tomistoma cairense, Tomistoma calaritanum, Tomistoma champsoides, Tomistoma coppensi, Tomistoma dowsoni, Tomistoma gaudense, Tomistoma kerunense, Tomistoma lusitanica, Tomistoma lusitanicum, Tomistoma schlegelii

Type specimen: LUVP 11062, a mandible. Its type locality is Nareda, which is in a Lutetian marine horizon in the Harudi Formation of India.

Ecology: carnivore

Distribution: found only at Nareda

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