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Gryposuchus jessei

Reptilia - Gavialidae

Taxonomy
Gryposuchus jessei was named by Gürich (1912). Its type specimen is Geologischen Instituts Hamburg (unnumbered), a partial skull (distal end of a rostrum), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Rio Acre, which is in a Tortonian fluvial-deltaic siliciclastic in the Solimoes Formation of Brazil. It is the type species of Gryposuchus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1912Gryposuchus jessei Gurich
1912Gryposuchus jessei Gürich
1997Gryposuchus jessei Langston and Gasparini
1998Gryposuchus jessei Kraus p. 389
2010Gryposuchus jessei Riff et al.
2018Gryposuchus jessei Souza et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
RankNameAuthor
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
—Pseudosuchia(Zittel 1890)
—SuchiaKrebs 1974
—Paracrocodylomorpha
—Loricata(Merrem 1820)
—Crocodylomorpha()
—Solidocrania
suborderCrocodyliformes
—MesoeucrocodyliaWhetstone and Whybrow 1983
—NeosuchiaClark 1988
suborderEusuchiaHuxley 1875
—Crocodylia(Owen 1842)
superfamilyGavialoideaBrochu 1997
familyGavialidaeAdams 1854
—Gryposuchinae
genusGryposuchus
speciesjessei

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Gryposuchus jessei Gürich 1912
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marineuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: carnivoreuc
Created: 2009-01-03 20:38:59
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:38:59
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Benton 1983, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Miocene to the top of the Tortonian or 11.60800 to 7.24600 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Eocene - Pliocene56.0 - 2.588Brazil (Amazonas) Gryposuchus jessei (217618)
Tortonian11.62 - 7.246Brazil (Amazonas) Gryposuchus jessei (195449)
Tortonian11.62 - 7.246Brazil (Acre) Gryposuchus jessei (type locality: 55602)
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333Venezuela (Falcón) Gryposuchus jessei (63520)