Gavialinum
Gavialinum is an extinct genus of teleosaurid thalattosuchian. The type species is Gavialinum rhodoni.
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| Genus: | †Gavialinum Lortet, 1892 |
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| †Gavialinum rhodoni Lortet, 1892 | |
Distribution
Fossils have been found from France that date back to the Bathonian stage of the Middle Jurassic.[1]
Description
Gavialinum rhodoni has a long, narrow snout, much like the current gavialids, from which the Gavialinum genus gets its name.[2] The two are not related, as Gavialinum rhodoni occurred much earlier than any crocodilian. Gavialinum had 33 teeth on each jaw, for a total of 66.[3]
References
- Lortet, 1894. Les reptiles fossiles du bassin du Rhone. Archives du Museum d'histoire naturelle de Lyon 4(139):12.
- Mémoires de la Société géologique de France (in French). F.-G. Levrault. 1881. p. 2.
- Reptiles of the Rhone basin (in French). H. Georg. 1892. p. 176.
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