Crocodylus (Leptorhynchus) crassidens Cautley and Falconer 1840 (crocodile)

Reptilia - Crocodylia - Crocodylidae

Full reference: P. T. Cautley and H. Falconer. 1840. Notice on the remains of a fossil monkey from the Tertiary strata of the Sewalik Hills in the North of Hindoostan. Transactions of the Geological Soceity of London, Series 2 5:499-504

Belongs to Crocodylus (Leptorhynchus) according to P. T. Cautley and H. Falconer 1840

See also Lydekker 1888, Mook 1932, Perrier 1928 and Swinton 1934

Sister taxon: Crocodylus (Leptorhynchus) gangeticus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Siwalik Hills, which is in a Pliocene fluvial horizon in the Pinjor Formation of Pakistan

Ecology: carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Crocodylus (Leptorhynchus) crassidens in the database

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