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RHAMPHOSUCHUS
(ram-foe-soo-kus)
meaning: "Beak crocodile"
Rhamphosuchus
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 |
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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.

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