Toyotamaphimeia
| Toyotamaphimeia Temporal range: Pleistocene
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| Toyotamaphimeia machikanense skeleton | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
| Clade: | Archosauriformes |
| Order: | Crocodilia |
| Family: | Gavialidae |
| Subfamily: | Gavialinae |
| Genus: | †Toyotamaphimeia Aoki, 1983 |
| Type species | |
| Toyotamaphimeia machikanensis (Kobatake et al., 1965)
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Toyotamaphimeia machikanensis is an extinct tomistomine crocodylian which lived in Japan during the Pleistocene. A specimen recovered in 1964 at Osaka University during the construction of a new science building has been dated to around 430–380 thousand years old based on the stratum in which it was found.[1] T. machikanensis was a fairly large crocodylian with a 1 m (3.3 ft) skull and a total length up to 8 m (26 ft).[2] It is closely related to the false gharial and was originally described as a member of the same genus, Tomistoma.
Sources
- ^ "Valuable Specimen which Osaka University Possesses". Archived from the original on 2005-03-06.
- ^ "Sous ordre des EUSUCHIA". Archived from the original on 2012-02-08. Retrieved 2012-02-08.
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