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Toyotamaphimeia

Wikipedia Abstract

Toyotamaphimeia machikanensis is an extinct tomistomine crocodylian from Pleistocene-aged strata of Japan. It is closely related to the false gharial, and lived 400,000 years ago, and was originally described as a member of the same genus, Tomistoma. T. machikanensis was a fairly large crocodylian with a 1 m (3.3 ft) skull and a total length up to 8 m (26 ft).
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External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0