Reptilia - Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
Full reference: C. A. Brochu and G. W. Storrs. 2012. A giant crocodile from the Plio-Pleistocene of Kenya, the phylogenetic relationships of Neogene African crocodylines, and the antiquity of Crocodylus in Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(3):587-602
Belongs to Crocodylus according to C. A. Brochu and G. W. Storrs 2012
Sister taxa: Crocodilus (Ichthyosuchus), Crocodilus antiquus, Crocodilus biporcatus, Crocodilus ziphodon, Crocodylus (Leptorhynchus), Crocodylus acer, Crocodylus acutus, Crocodylus affinis, Crocodylus americanus, Crocodylus anthropophagus, Crocodylus aptus, Crocodylus bambolii, Crocodylus caralitanus, Crocodylus chamensis, Crocodylus checchiai, Crocodylus elliotti, Crocodylus falconensis, Crocodylus gariepensis, Crocodylus gaudense, Crocodylus greenwoodi, Crocodylus grypus, Crocodylus intermedius, Crocodylus johnstoni, Crocodylus megarhinus, Crocodylus mindorensis, Crocodylus moreletii, Crocodylus niloticus, Crocodylus niloticus kaisensis, Crocodylus novaeguineae, Crocodylus palaeindicus, Crocodylus palustris, Crocodylus parvus, Crocodylus polyodon, Crocodylus porosus, Crocodylus raninus, Crocodylus rhombifer, Crocodylus siamensis, Crocodylus solaris, Crocodylus stavelianus, Crocodylus subulatus, Crocodylus suchus, Crocodylus sulciferus, Crocodylus wheelerii, Crocodylus ziphodon, Limnosaurus
Type specimen: KNM-ER 1683, a skull (Skull and lower jaw). Its type locality is East Turkana - Area 105 - KBS, which is in a Gelasian/Calabrian fluvial siliciclastic/siltstone in the Koobi Fora Formation of Kenya.
Ecology: carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Kenya (2 collections)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Kenya (1)
• Pliocene of Kenya (4)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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