Reptilia - Pseudosuchia - Gavialidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 131832

Full reference: J. Bocquentin Villanueva and E. Buffetaut. 1981. Hesperogavialis cruxenti n.gen., n. sp., nouveau Gavialide (Crocodylia, Eusuchia) du Miocene Superieur (Huayquerien) d'Urumaco (Venezuela). Geobios 14(3):415-419

Belongs to Hesperogavialis according to D. Riff et al. 2010

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MHC 320, a maxilla. Its type locality is El Mamón, 70 km east of Coro, which is in a Miocene terrestrial mudstone in the Urumaco Formation of Venezuela.

Ecology: carnivore