Gavialis browni

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Gavialis browni
Temporal range:
Ma[1]
Skull of Gavialis browni (AMNH 6279) in the American Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauromorpha
Clade: Archosauriformes
Order: Crocodilia
Family: Gavialidae
Genus: Gavialis
Species:
G. browni
Binomial name
Gavialis browni

Gavialis browni is an

crocodylian genus Gavialis and a close relative of the living gharial
Gavialis gangeticus.

G. browni lived about 5 million years ago in the

Gavialis dixoni, and the most advanced, the modern gharial (although G. dixoni is now placed outside Gavialis in its own genus, Dollosuchus, and may be more closely related to crocodiles than to the gharial).[3] G. browni has a longer snout with more teeth than Dollosuchus, but it is not as long and does not have as many teeth as that of the gharial.[4] G. browni has also been proposed to be moved to a genus other than Gavialis.[5]

Below is a

extinct members:[6]

Gavialidae

Gavialis gangeticus Gharial

Gavialis bengawanicus†

Gavialis browni†

Gryposuchus colombianus
†

Ikanogavialis†

Gryposuchus pachakamue
†

Piscogavialis†

Harpacochampsa†

Tomistoma lusitanicum
†

Tomistoma schlegelii False gharial

References

  1. PMID 34567843
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  2. doi:10.1016/j.annpal.2011.08.002
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  3. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00679.x
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  4. ^ Mook, C. C. (1932). "A new species of fossil gavial from the Siwalik Beds" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (514): 1–5.
  5. PMID 23028557
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  6. PMID 30051855
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