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Gavialis

The Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum
London, United Kingdom

  • Title: Gavialis
  • Phylum: Chordata
  • Order: Crocodylia
  • Locality: Ava; Irrawadi
  • Latest era or highest erathem: Cenozoic
  • Latest eon or highest eonothem: Phanerozoic
  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Identified by: William Clift; Royal College of Surgeons of England; b.1775; d.1849; Clift
  • Identification Qualifier: Trans. Geol. Soc. ser. 2, vol. 2, pl. xliii, fig. 5.
  • Higher geography: Asia; Burma; Ava, Irrawadi
  • Higher classification: Animalia; Chordata; Reptilia; Crocodylia; Gavialidae
  • Genus: Gavialis
  • Family: Gavialidae
  • Earliest period or lowest system: Neogene
  • Earliest era or lowest erathem: Cenozoic
  • Earliest epoch or lowest series: Pliocene
  • Earliest eon or Lowest eonothem: Phanerozoic
  • Country: Burma
  • Continent: Asia
  • Class: Reptilia
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