Gavialinum

Gavialinum; Temporal range: Middle Jurassic
	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
Species
	G. rhodoni Lortet, 1892 (type);

Gavialinum is an extinct genus of teleosaurid thalattosuchian.

Distribution

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

Description

Gavialinum rhodoni 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 rhodoni occurred much earlier than any crocodilian.^{[citation needed]} Gavialinum had 33 teeth on each jaw, for a total of 66.^[3]

References

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

External links

Gavialinum in the Paleobiology Database

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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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