Toyotamaphimeia

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Toyotamaphimeia Fossil range: Pleistocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida Order: Crocodilia Family: Gavialidae Genus: Toyotamaphimeia Aoki, 1983
Species
T. machikanensis (Kobatake et al., 1965 [originally Tomistoma machikanensis]) (type)

Toyotamaphimeia is an extinct genus of crocodile from the Pleistocene of Japan. The type species is T. machikanensis, first named as a species of Tomistoma.

[edit] Sources

• http://www.museum.osaka-u.ac.jp/en/specimen/12.html