Gavialidae
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Gavialidae is a family of large semiaquatic crocodilians with elongated, narrow snouts. Gavialidae consists of two living species, the gharial and the false gharial, both occurring in Asia. Many extin
Indian Gharial Crocodile Digon 3
False Gharials
Tomistominae
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Tomistominae is a subfamily of crocodylians that includes one living species, the false gharial. Many more extinct species are known, extending the range of the subfamily back to the Eocene epoch. In
Gavialidae
…indicate that the false gharial (Tomistoma) (and by inference other related extinct forms) traditionally viewed as belonging to the crocodylian subfamily Tomistominae actually belong to Gavialoidea (and Gavialidae). As its name suggests, the false gharial was once thought to be only distantly related to the gharial…
Tomistoma schlegelii
Skull of Kentisuchus toliapicus.
Rhamphosuchus crassidens, a giant tomistomine from India.