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Gavialoidea is one of
three superfamilies of crocodylians, the
other two
being Alligatoroidea and Crocodyloidea.
Although many
extinct species are known...
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belonging to the
crocodylian subfamily Tomistominae actually belong to
Gavialoidea (and Gavialidae). As its name suggests, the
false gharial was once thought...
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superfamilies of crocodylians, the
other two
being Crocodyloidea and
Gavialoidea.
Alligatoroidea evolved in the Late
Cretaceous period, and
consists of...
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belonging to the
crocodylian subfamily Tomistominae actually belong to
Gavialoidea and Gavialidae.
Fossils of
extinct Tomistoma species have been found...
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indicates that they are more
closely related to true
gharials as
members of
Gavialoidea.
Tomistomines have
narrow or
longirostrine snouts like gharials. The...
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superfamilies of crocodilians, the
other two
being Alligatoroidea and
Gavialoidea, and it
includes the crocodiles.
Crocodyloidea may also
include the extinct...
- 'thoracosaurs',
recovered as a
sister taxon of
Thoracosaurus within Gavialoidea,
though it is
uncertain whether 'thoracosaurs' were true gavialoids....
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descendants of the
common ancestor of the
three modern lineages of eusuchians:
Gavialoidea (gharials),
Alligatoroidea (alligators and caimans), and Crocodyloidea...
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across South America. However, at the Miocene/Pliocene boundary, all
Gavialoidea and
Crocodyloidea (another
superfamily colonising in the Miocene) were...
- 'thoracosaurs' that was
recovered as a
sister taxon of
Thoracosaurus within Gavialoidea,
though it is
uncertain whether 'thoracosaurs' were true gavialoids....
