| Fossil range | Oligocene-Miocene, |
|---|---|
| Taxon | Dadagavialis |
| Authority | Salas-Gismondi et al., 2018 |
| Subdivision ranks | Species |
| Subdivision |
Dadagavialis is an extinct monospecific genus of gavialid crocodylian that lived during the Early Miocene in what is now Panama. It was described in 2018, and was proposed to be a member of Gryposuchinae.[1] However, other studies have shown Gryposuchinae to be paraphyletic and rather an evolutionary grade towards the living gharial, and thus Dadagavialis might just be classified as a member of Gavialidae.[2]
References
- ^ Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi; Jorge W. Moreno-Bernal; Torsten M. Scheyer; Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra; Carlos Jaramillo (2018). "New Miocene Caribbean gavialoids and patterns of longirostry in crocodylians". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 17 (12): 1049–1075. doi:10.1080/14772019.2018.1495275. hdl:20.500.12390/2709. S2CID 91495532
- ^ Rio, Jonathan P. & Mannion, Philip D. (6 September 2021). "Phylogenetic analysis of a new morphological dataset elucidates the evolutionary history of Crocodylia and resolves the long-standing gharial problem". PeerJ. 9. doi:10.7717/peerj.12094. PMC 8428266. PMID 34567843