Gryposuchus is an extinct genus of gavialid crocodilian. Fossils have been found from Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil and the Peruvian Amazon. The genus existed during the Miocene epoch (Colhuehuapian to Huayquerian).[2] One recently described species, G. croizati, grew to an estimated length of 10 metres (33 ft). Gryposuchus is the type genus of the subfamily Gryposuchinae, although a 2018 study indicates that Gryposuchinae and Gryposuchus might be paraphyletic and rather an evolutionary grade towards the gharial.
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metres (33 ft). Gryposuchus is the type genus of the subfamily Gryposuchinae, although a 2018 study indicates that Gryposuchinae and Gryposuchus might be paraphyletic...
the extinct turtle Stupendemys, crocodilians including Charactosuchus, Gryposuchus, and Mourasuchus, Anhinga birds, and mammals including: sloths, bats...
gangeticus, gharial †Gavialis bengawanicus Genus †Gavialosuchus? Genus †Gryposuchus? (may by paraphyletic, along with Gryposuchinae) Genus †Hanyusuchus Genus...
Early Cretaceous pholidosaurid Sarcosuchus and the Miocene gavialid Gryposuchus, at 10.6 m, 9.5 m and 10 m, respectively. Rhamphosuchus was previously...
PMID 27395602. Langston, Wann; Gasparini, Z. (1997). "Crocodilians, Gryposuchus, and the South American gavials". In Kay, Richard F; Madden, Richard...
Formation of coastal Brazil, Gryposuchus and Ikanogavialis persist into the Middle Miocene, with the freshwater-adapting Gryposuchus expanding throughout the...
lived in a coastal paleoenvironment along with other gavialids such as Gryposuchus. The strata of the Urumaco formation were deposited in both marine and...
crocodyliform of all time. However, other crocodyliforms such as Purussaurus, Gryposuchus, Rhamphosuchus, Euthecodon, and Sarcosuchus may have equaled or exceeded...
Miocene-Pliocene boundary. Some of South America's aquatic crocodilians, such as Gryposuchus, Mourasuchus and Purussaurus, reached monstrous sizes, with lengths up...
particular given the many parallels to platanistids. Both Pebanista and Gryposuchus, one of the many native gharials, descend from marine ancestors before...
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