Reptilia - Crocodylia - Gavialidae
Full reference: R. Salas-Gismondi, D. Ochoa, S. Jouve, P. E. Romero, J. Cardich, A. Perez, T. DeVries, P. Baby, M. Urbina and M. Carré. 2022. Miocene fossils from the southeastern Pacific shed light on the last radiation of marine crocodylians. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289:20220380:1-10
Belongs to Sacacosuchus according to R. Salas-Gismondi et al. 2022
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MUSM 162, a skull. Its type locality is Sud-Sacaco West (SAS) horizon, which is in a Messinian foreshore siltstone in the Pisco Formation of Peru.
Ecology: planktonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Peru (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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