Gavialis browni

Gavialis browni is an extinct species of the crocodylian genus Gavialis and a close relative of the living gharial Gavialis gangeticus.

Gavialis browni

Smokeybjb · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 3.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 774 ka.

Miocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 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 occurrences7.0–6.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.6–6.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.2–5.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.8–5.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.4–5.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.8–3.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.4–3.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.0–2.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.3–1.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.9–1.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.5–1.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.1–669 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.246 Mya3.6 Mya12.1 Mya274 ka

5 occurrences of Gavialis browni on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

4 formations

Siwaliks — 32.83°N, 73.22°EPinjor — 28.82°N, 79.09°EPinjor — 30.73°N, 76.78°EPiram Conglomerate — 21.60°N, 72.36°E

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The named rock units Gavialis browni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gavialis browni and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Gavialis browni and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

47 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Gavialis browni, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Gavialis browni

Credit
Smokeybjb
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Gavialis browni · AMNH:FARB:6279

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itGavialis through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mook 1932