Definition of Gavialoidea. Meaning of Gavialoidea. Synonyms of Gavialoidea

- Gavialoidea is one of three superfamilies of crocodylians, the other two being Alligatoroidea and Crocodyloidea. Although many extinct species are known...
- superfamilies of crocodylians, the other two being Crocodyloidea and Gavialoidea. Alligatoroidea evolved in the Late Cretaceous period, and consists of...
- belonging to the crocodylian subfamily Tomistominae actually belong to Gavialoidea (and Gavialidae). As its name suggests, the false gharial was once thought...
- belonging to the crocodylian subfamily Tomistominae actually belong to Gavialoidea and Gavialidae. Fossils of extinct Tomistoma species have been found...
- indicates that they are more closely related to true gharials as members of Gavialoidea. Tomistomines have narrow or longirostrine snouts like gharials. The...
- superfamilies of crocodilians, the other two being Alligatoroidea and Gavialoidea, and it includes the crocodiles. Crocodyloidea may also include the extinct...
- descendants of the common ancestor of the three modern lineages of eusuchians: Gavialoidea (gharials), Alligatoroidea (alligators and caimans), and Crocodyloidea...
- Phylogenetic work starting in the 1990s instead supported affinities within Gavialoidea exclusive of such forms, although a 2018 tip dating study simultaneously...
- Atlantosuchus Dyrosaurus Guarinisuchus Phosphatosaurus Rhabdognathus Gavialoidea: Late Cretaceous - Recent Eothoracosaurus Thoracosaurus Eosuchus Argochampsa...
- 'thoracosaurs', recovered as a sister taxon of Thoracosaurus within Gavialoidea, though it is uncertain whether 'thoracosaurs' were true gavialoids....