Gavialinum
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| Gavialinum Temporal range: Middle Jurassic, | |
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| Hypothetical life reconstruction of Gavialinum rhodani | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
| Suborder: | †Thalattosuchia |
| Family: | †Teleosauridae |
| Genus: | †Gavialinum Lortet, 1892 |
| Type species | |
| †Gavialinum rhodani Lortet, 1892 | |
Gavialinum is an extinct genus of teleosaurid thalattosuchian.
Fossils have been found in France that date back to the Bathonian stage of the Middle Jurassic.[1]