Gryposuchus
| Gryposuchus Temporal range: Miocene, | |
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| Fossils of the skull and mandible of G. colombianus, Museo Geológico José Royo y Gómez, Bogotá. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
| Clade: | Archosauriformes |
| Order: | Crocodilia |
| Family: | Gavialidae |
| Subfamily: | †Gryposuchinae |
| Genus: | †Gryposuchus Gurich, 1912 |
| Type species | |
| †Gryposuchus jessei Gurich, 1912 | |
| Other species | |
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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). 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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