Loading

Gharialis leptodus Hugh Falconer and Proby Cautley, 1868

The Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum
London, United Kingdom

  • Title: Gharialis leptodus Hugh Falconer and Proby Cautley, 1868
  • Specific epithet: leptodus
  • Scientific name authorship: Hugh Falconer and Proby Cautley, 1868
  • Phylum: Chordata
  • 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: Pal. Indica ser. 10, vol. iii, pl. xxxii, p. 226
  • Higher geography: Asia; India; Siwalik Hills
  • Higher classification: Animalia; Chordata; Reptilia; Crocodylia; Crocodylidae
  • Genus: Gharialis
  • Formation: Siwalik beds
  • Family: Crocodylidae
  • 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
The Natural History Museum

Get the app

Explore museums and play with Art Transfer, Pocket Galleries, Art Selfie, and more

Interested in Science?

Get updates with your personalized Culture Weekly

You are all set!

Your first Culture Weekly will arrive this week.

Home
Discover
Play
Nearby
Favorites