Named By: | Falconer & Cautley in 1840 |
Time Period: | Miocene |
Location: | India |
Size: | 8 to 11 meters long, although earlier estimates suggested that it may have been bigger |
Diet: | Carnivore |
Fossil(s): | Several fossils of teeth with jaw and skull fragments |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Crocodylomorpha | Crocodylia | Tomistominae | |
Rhamphosuchus ("Beak crocodile") is an extinct relative of the modern false gharial. It inhabited what is now the Indian sub-continent in the Miocene. It is only known from incomplete sets of fossils, mostly teeth and skulls.