Biology:Dadagavialis

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Short description: Species of reptile (fossil)

Dadagavialis
Temporal range: Oligocene-Miocene, 23.03–15.97 Ma[1]
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauromorpha
Clade: Archosauriformes
Order: Crocodilia
Family: Gavialidae
Subfamily: Gryposuchinae
Genus: Dadagavialis
Salas-Gismondi et al., 2018
Species
  • Dadagavialis gunai Salas-Gismondi et al., 2018 (type)

Dadagavialis is an extinct monospecific genus of gavialid crocodylian that lived during the Early Miocene in what is now Panama. It was described in 2018, and was proposed to be a member of Gryposuchinae.[2] However, other studies have shown Gryposuchinae to be paraphyletic and rather an evolutionary grade towards the living gharial, and thus Dadagavialis might just be classified as a member of Gavialidae.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Rio, Jonathan P.; Mannion, Philip D. (6 September 2021). "Phylogenetic analysis of a new morphological dataset elucidates the evolutionary history of Crocodylia and resolves the long-standing gharial problem". PeerJ 9: e12094. doi:10.7717/peerj.12094. PMID 34567843. 
  2. Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi; Jorge W. Moreno-Bernal; Torsten M. Scheyer; Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra; Carlos Jaramillo (2018). "New Miocene Caribbean gavialoids and patterns of longirostry in crocodylians". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17 (12): 1049–1075. doi:10.1080/14772019.2018.1495275. 

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