Tag Archive for 'Gavialoid'

The Sphinx was carved from the same rock formation that yielded the Herugavialis cairensis fossil, and both are missing the tip of the nose. Image credit: Karim Zanaty.

45-Million-Year-Old Crocodile Skull from Egypt Gets New Name: Herugavialis cairensis

Oct 7, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

CT scans of a fossil found near Cairo show the animal was not a relative of the false gharial (Tomistoma schlegelii), as paleontologists long thought. The...

The skull of Gryposuchus pachakamue, a proto-Amazonian gavialoid from the Miocene lakes and swamps of the Pebas Mega-Wetland System, in dorsal, ventral, and lateral view. Scale bar - 5 cm. Image credit: Salas-Gismondi R. et al.

Discovery of Miocene Crocodilian Suggests Parallel Evolution of Protruding Eyes

Apr 21, 2016 by News Staff

Fossils of a 13-million-year-old extinct gavialoid crocodilian from the Peruvian Amazon suggest that South American and Indian gavialoids evolved separately...