Ikanogavialis

Ikanogavialis
Temporal range: Late Miocene,
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauromorpha
Clade: Archosauriformes
Order: Crocodilia
Family: Gavialidae
Subfamily: Gryposuchinae
Genus: Ikanogavialis
Sill 1970
Species
  • I. gameroi Sill 1970 (type)
  • ?I. papuensis (De Vis 1905 [originally Gavialis papuensis])

Ikanogavialis is an extinct genus of gavialid crocodilian. Fossils have been found in the Urumaco Formation in Urumaco, Venezuela and the Solimões Formation of Brazil. The strata from which remains are found are late Miocene in age, rather than Pliocene as was once thought. A possible member of this genus survived into the Late Holocene on Muyua or Woodlark Island in Papua New Guinea.

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