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Gryposuchus ✝

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Description

Gryposuchus is an extinct genus of gavialoid crocodilian. It is the type genus of the subfamily Gryposuchinae. Fossils have been found from Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil and the Peruvian Amazon. The genus existed from the Middle Miocene to Late Pleistocene (Friasian to Lujanian). One recently described species, G. croizati, grew to an estimated length of 10 metres (33 ft).

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gryposuchus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4822976	https://www.gbif.org/species/4822976
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	38417	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=38417

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Gryposuchus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Gryposuchus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
-	Pseudosuchia
-	Suchia	Krebs 1974
-	Paracrocodylomorpha	Parrish 1993
-	Loricata
-	Crocodylomorpha
suborder	Crocodyliformes	Hay 1930
-	Mesoeucrocodylia	Whetstone and Whybrow 1983
-	Neosuchia	Clark 1988
suborder	Eusuchia	Huxley 1875
-	Crocodylia
superfamily	Gavialoidea	Brochu 1997
-	Gryposuchinae	Vélez-Juarbe et al. 2007
genus	Gryposuchus	Gürich 1912

Scientific Name

Gryposuchus Gürich, 1912

Name Published In

Mitt. min. Geol. StaatsInst. Hamburg, (Beih., 4) 29, 1911

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Gryposuchus	genus	belongs to Crocodylidae	stated without evidence	Patterson, 1936
Gryposuchus	genus	belongs to Gavialidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Gryposuchus	genus	belongs to Gavialidae	stated without evidence	Langston and Gasparini, 1997
Gryposuchus	genus	belongs to Gavialidae	stated with evidence	Kraus, 1998
Gryposuchus	genus	belongs to Gavialoidea	stated with evidence	Brochu and Rincón, 2004
Gryposuchus	genus	belongs to Gavialoidea	stated without evidence	Delfino et al., 2005
Gryposuchus	genus	belongs to Gavialoidea	stated with evidence	Jouve et al., 2006
Gryposuchus	genus	belongs to Gryposuchinae	stated with evidence	Vélez-Juarbe et al., 2007
Gryposuchus	genus	belongs to Gavialoidea	stated with evidence	Jouve et al., 2008
Gryposuchus	genus	belongs to Gavialidae	stated with evidence	Riff et al., 2010
Gryposuchus	genus	belongs to Gavialoidea	stated without evidence	Puértolas et al., 2011
Gryposuchus	genus	belongs to Gryposuchinae	stated with evidence	Salas-Gismondi et al., 2016

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

20.4 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene

Last Recorded Appearance

2.59 - 0.01 Ma
Pleistocene

Environment

marine (based on Mesoeucrocodylia)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Crocodylia)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

G. Gürich. 1912. Gryposuchus jessei, ein neus schmalschnauziges Krokodil aus den jüngeren Ablagerungen des oberen Amazonas-Gebietes. Mitteilugen des Mineralogisch, Geologischen Instituts Hamburg 4:59-71

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gryposuchus

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Gavialis colombianus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gryposuchus colombianus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		8	16.3 Ma Miocene	13.8 Ma Miocene
Gryposuchus croizati ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Gryposuchus jessei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Gryposuchus neogaeus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	9.00 Ma Miocene	9.00 Ma Miocene
Gryposuchus pachakamue ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	16.0 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Ramphostoma neogaeus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1912	Gryposuchus Gürich
1936	Gryposuchus Patterson
1988	Gryposuchus Carroll
1997	Gryposuchus Langston and Gasparini
1998	Gryposuchus Kraus p. 389
2004	Gryposuchus Brochu and Rincón
2005	Gryposuchus Delfino et al.

Year	Name and Author
2006	Gryposuchus Jouve et al.
2007	Gryposuchus Vélez-Juarbe et al.
2008	Gryposuchus Jouve et al.
2008	Gryposuchus Martin and Buffetaut
2010	Gryposuchus Riff et al.
2011	Gryposuchus Puértolas et al.
2016	Gryposuchus Salas-Gismondi et al.

References

Gürich G. (1912) Gryposuchus jessei, ein neus schmalschnauziges Krokodil aus den jüngeren Ablagerungen des oberen Amazonas-Gebietes, Mitteilugen des Mineralogisch, Geologischen Instituts Hamburg 4, 59-71

Patterson B. (1936) Caiman latirostris from the Pleistocene of Argentina, and a Summary of South American Cenozoic Crocodilia, Herpetologica 1 2, 43-54

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Langston W., Gasparini Z. (1997) Crocodilians, Gryposuchus and the South American gavials, Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics - The Miocene fauna of La Venta, Colombia, 113-154

Kraus R. (1998) The cranium of Piscogavialis jugalipeforatus n. nen., n. sp. (Gavialidae, Crocodylia) from the Miocene of Peru, Palaeontologische Zeischrift 72 3/4, 389-406

Brochu C. A., Rincón A. D. (2004) A gavialoid crocodylian from the Lower Miocene of Venezuela, Special Papers in Palaeontology 71, 61-79

Delfino M., Piras P., et al (2005) Anatomy and phylogeny of the gavialoid crocodylian Eosuchus lerichei from the Paleocene of Europe, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 50 3, 565-580

Jouve S., Iarochene M., et al (2006) New material of Argochampsa krebsi (Crocodylia: Gavialoidea) from the Lower Paleocene of the Oulad Abdoun Basin (Morocco): phylogenetic implications, Geobios 39, 817-832 doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2005.07.003

Vélez-Juarbe J., Brochu C. A., et al (2007) A gharial from the Oligocene of Puerto Rico: transoceanic dispersal in the history of a non-marine reptile, Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274, 1245-1254

Jouve S., Bardet N., et al (2008) The oldest African crocodylomorph: phylogeny, paleobiogeography, and differential survivorship of marine reptiles through the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 2, 409-421

Martin J. E., Buffetaut E. (2008) Crocodilus affuvelensis Matheron, 1869 from the Late Cretaceous of southern France: a reassessment, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 152, 567-580

Riff D., Romano P. S., et al (2010) Neogene crocodile and turtle fauna in northern South America, Amazonia: Landscape and Species Evolution: A look into the past, 259-280

Puértolas E., Canudo J. I., et al (2011) A new crocodylian from the late Maastrichtian of Spain: Implications for the initial radiation of crocodyloids, PLoS One 6 6, e20011:1-12 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020011

Salas-Gismondi R., Flynn J. J., et al (2016) A New 13 Million Year Old Gavialoid Crocodylian from Proto-Amazonian Mega-Wetlands Reveals Parallel Evolutionary Trends in Skull Shape Linked to Longirostry, PLoS ONE 11 4, e0152453:1-29 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0152453

NZ cross ref or inferred from publ. title - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Mitt. min. Geol. StaatsInst. Hamburg, (Beih., 4) 29, 1911 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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