Crocodylus palaeindicus

Crocodylus palaeindicus is an extinct species of crocodile from southern Asia. C. palaeindicus lived from the Miocene to the Pleistocene epoch. It may be an ancestor of the living Mugger crocodile.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CrocodylusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Crocodylia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Mesoeucrocodylia

Time the record covers

At least 4.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 774 ka.

Miocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.8–9.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.4–9.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.0–8.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.6–8.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.2–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.4–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.8–3.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.4–3.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.0–2.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.3–1.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.9–1.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.5–1.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.1–669 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.246 Mya2.58 Mya12.1 Mya274 ka

5 occurrences of Crocodylus palaeindicus on record. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

5 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

3 formations

Irrawaddy — 21.09°N, 94.79°EPiram Conglomerate — 21.60°N, 72.36°ESiwaliks — 30.73°N, 76.78°E

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The named rock units Crocodylus palaeindicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

12 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Crocodylus palaeindicus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

3 references

Each of the 5 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Crocodylus palaeindicus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Crocodylus palaeindicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Crocodylus palaeindicus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Falconer and Walker 1859