Toyotamaphimeia

Toyotamaphimeia
Temporal range: Pleistocene
Toyotamaphimeia machikanense skeleton
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Crocodilia
Subfamily: Tomistominae
Genus: Toyotamaphimeia
Aoki, 1983
Type species
Toyotamaphimeia machikanensis
(Kobatake et al., 1965)
Synonyms
  • Tomistoma machikanensis

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).[1]

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