Reptilia - Crocodylia - Gavialidae
Full reference: H.-Y. Shan, X.-C. Wu, Y.-N. Cheng and T. Sato. 2017. Maomingosuchus petrolica, a restudy of ‘Tomistoma’ petrolica Yeh, 1958. Palaeoworld 26:672-690
Parent taxon: Tomistominae according to T. Massonne et al. 2021
See also Rio and Mannion 2021 and Shan et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Atacisaurus, Atacisaurus glareae, Dollosuchus, Ferganosuchus, Gavialis breviceps, Gavialis curvirostris, Gavialis leptodus, Gavialis pachyrhynchus, Megadontosuchus, Melitosaurus, Paratomistoma, Rhamphosuchus, Sakhibaghoon, Tomistoma, Tomistoma lyceense
Subtaxa: Maomingosuchus acutirostris Maomingosuchus petrolica
Type: Tomistoma petrolica
Ecology: carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of China (2 collections), Thailand (1), Vietnam (1)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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