Rhamphosuchus ("Beak crocodile") is an extinct genus of gavialid crocodylians. It lived during the Pliocene and its fossils have been found in two regions; the Siwalik Hills of Pakistan and India as well as the Sindh region of Pakistan. Its type species is Rhamphosuchus crassidens, which is only known from incomplete sets of fossils, mostly teeth and skulls. Four species traditionally placed in the genus Gavialis may be included as well.[1]
^Martin, J. E. (2018). "The taxonomic content of the genus Gavialis from the Siwalik Hills of India and Pakistan" (PDF). Papers in Palaeontology. 5 (3): 483–497. doi:10.1002/spp2.1247.
Iijima and colleagues recovered Rhamphosuchus as a derived member of the subfamily Gavialinae instead. Rhamphosuchus probably had a more generalized predatory...
Three other extinct crocodyliformes, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus, and Rhamphosuchus had similar body sizes. Sarcosuchus and Deinosuchus had similar proportions...
than previously estimated but also greater than that of the Miocene Rhamphosuchus, the Late Cretaceous Deinosuchus, and the Miocene Purussaurus according...
Gavialis, with G. hysudricus as a junior synonym of G. gangeticus. Rhamphosuchus is proposed to include G. leptodus, G. pachyrhynchus, G. curvirostris...
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inhabited South America. Another gigantic form was a false gharial Rhamphosuchus, which inhabited modern age India. A strange form, Mourasuchus also...
time. However, other crocodyliforms such as Purussaurus, Gryposuchus, Rhamphosuchus, Euthecodon, and Sarcosuchus may have equaled or exceeded it in size...
590 kg (1,300 lb). The largest gavialid to ever exist was the extinct Rhamphosuchus from the Miocene of Asia. It was originally thought to be 18 m (59 ft)...
recent revision in the estimated size of the large gharial relative Rhamphosuchus is correct (the genus was once considered to be 15 metres (49 ft) in...
spread throughout the Indian subcontinent during this time. One species, Rhamphosuchus crassidens, was one of the largest crocodilians that ever lived, growing...
alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). The largest gavialids were Asian Rhamphosuchus at 8–11 m (26–36 ft) and South American Gryposuchus at 10.15 m (33.3 ft)...
that it was instead a member of Tomistominae, possibly a relative of Rhamphosuchus or another distinct tomistomine genus. However, further research on...
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