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known from a
broader range,
including the
recently extinct Hanyusuchus.
Gavialids are
generally regarded as
lacking the jaw
strength to
capture the large...
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Rhamphosuchus ("Beak crocodile") is an
extinct genus of
gavialid crocodylians. It
lived during the
Pliocene and its
fossils have been
found in two regions;...
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Piscogavialis is an
extinct monospecific genus of
gryposuchine gavialid crocodylian. The only
species yet
known is P. jugaliperforatus.
Fossils of Piscogavialis...
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Tomistoma is a
genus of
gavialid crocodilians. They are
noted for
their long
narrow snouts used to
catch fish,
similar to the gharial.
Tomistoma contains...
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Simoedosaurus and
dyrosaurid crocodylomorphs.
Various types of
marine gavialid crocodilians remained widespread as
recently as the Late Miocene. Some...
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shows the gharial's
close relationship to the
false gharial, and how the
gavialids and
crocodiles are more
closely related than the alligatoroids: Here is...
- Brevirostres, with the long-snouted
gavialids more
closely related to
crocodiles than to alligators, with the new
grouping of
gavialids and
crocodiles named Longirostres...
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Hanyusuchus is an
extinct genus of
Holocene gavialid crocodilian native to
South China,
containing a
single species Hanyusuchus sinensis.
Reaching a total...
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Gryposuchus is an
extinct genus of
gavialid crocodilian.
Fossils have been
found from Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela,
Brazil and the
Peruvian Amazon. The...
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Penghusuchus is an
extinct genus of
gavialid crocodylian. It is
known from a
skeleton found in
Middle to
Upper Miocene rocks of
Penghu Island, off Taiwan...
