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Gavialis gangeticus (Gmelin 1789)
The Natural History Museum
London, United Kingdom
Details
- Title: Gavialis gangeticus (Gmelin 1789)
- Specific epithet: gangeticus
- Order: Crocodylia
- Locality: Siwalik Hills
- Latest era or highest erathem: Cenozoic
- Latest eon or highest eonothem: Phanerozoic
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Identified by: Richard Lydekker; b.1849; d.1913; Lydekker
- Identification Qualifier: Catalogue 1 p. 66.
- Higher geography: Asia; India; Siwalik Hills
- Higher classification: Animalia; Reptilia; Crocodylia; Gavialidae
- Genus: Gavialis
- Formation: Siwalik beds
- 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: India
- Continent: Asia
- Class: Reptilia
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