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Extinct South American gavialoids likely dis****d in the mid
Tertiary from
Africa and Asia.
Fossil remains of the
Puerto Rican gavialoid Aktiogavialis puertorisensis...
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Sutekhsuchus was
initially taken to be a
species of Tomistoma. Like all
gavialoids,
Sutekhsuchus possessed a
prominently elongated snout that in its case...
- the
earliest gavialoids possessed dorsally projecting external nares, this
feature can be seen as
having been a
reversal from the
gavialoid apomorphy back...
- crocodylomorph,
traditionally regarded as a
gavialoid crocodilian. It
might have been
among the most
basal of all
gavialoids,
lying crownward of all
other known...
-
crocodylian 'Tomistoma'
dowsoni and the
phylogenetic relationships of
gavialoids".
Journal of
Systematic Palaeontology. 22 (1). 2384548. Bibcode:2024JSPal...
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crocodylian 'Tomistoma'
dowsoni and the
phylogenetic relationships of
gavialoids".
Journal of
Systematic Palaeontology. 22 (1). 2384548. doi:10.1080/14772019...
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conical teeth that are
similar to
those of
piscivorous tetrapods including gavialoids, spinosaurids, anhanguerids, etc. The
holotype specimen was
found in terrestrial...
- deposits. This,
along with
similarities to Old
World gavialoids, was
interpreted as
evidence that
gavialoids "dis****d
across a
marine barrier to the Neotropics...
- Gavialoidea,
though it is
uncertain whether 'thoracosaurs' were true
gavialoids.
Definitive alligatoroids first appeared during the Santonian-Campanian...
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distribution for A. puertoricensis. This is in
contrast with the
living gavialoids,
which reside entirely in the
freshwater rivers of
South Asia.
While fossils...
