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Gavialinum

Gavialinum is an extinct genus of teleosaurid thalattosuchian. The type species is Gavialinum rhodani.

Gavialinum
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic, Bathonian
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Hypothetical life reconstruction of Gavialinum rhodani
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sauropsida
Subclass:
Diapsida
Infraclass:
Archosauromorpha
(unranked):
Mesoeucrocodylia
Suborder:
†Thalattosuchia
Family:
†Teleosauridae
Genus:
†Gavialinum

Lortet, 1892
Binomial name
†Gavialinum rhodani
Lortet, 1892

Distribution

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Fossils have been found from France that date back to the Bathonian stage of the Middle Jurassic.[1]

Description

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Gavialinum rhodani has a long, narrow snout, much like the current gavialids, from which the Gavialinum genus gets its name.[2] The two are not related, as Gavialinum rhodani occurred much earlier than any crocodilian.[citation needed] Gavialinum had 33 teeth on each jaw, for a total of 66.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Lortet, 1894. Les reptiles fossiles du bassin du Rhone. Archives du Museum d'histoire naturelle de Lyon 4(139):12.
  2. ^ Mémoires de la Société géologique de France (in French). F.-G. Levrault. 1881. p. 2.
  3. ^ Reptiles of the Rhone basin (in French). H. Georg. 1892. p. 176.
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