Reptilia - Crocodylia - Gavialidae
Full reference: G. Gürich. 1912. Gryposuchus jessei, ein neus schmalschnauziges Krokodil aus den jüngeren Ablagerungen des oberen Amazonas-Gebietes. Mitteilugen des Mineralogisch, Geologischen Instituts Hamburg 4:59-71
Belongs to Gryposuchus according to R. G. Souza et al. 2018
See also Kraus 1998, Langston and Gasparini 1997 and Riff et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Gryposuchus colombianus, Gryposuchus croizati, Gryposuchus neogaeus, Gryposuchus pachakamue
Type specimen: Geologischen Instituts Hamburg (unnumbered), a partial skull (distal end of a rostrum). Its type locality is Rio Acre, which is in a Tortonian fluvial-deltaic siliciclastic in the Solimoes Formation of Brazil.
Ecology: carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Brazil (2 collections), Venezuela (1)
• Eocene to Pliocene of Brazil (1)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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