Back جريبوسوكس Arabic جريبوسوكس ARZ Gryposuchus Spanish Gryposuchus French גריפוסוכוס HE Gryposuchus Italian グリポスクス Japanese 그리포수쿠스 Korean Gryposuchus Dutch Gryposuchus Polish
| Gryposuchus Temporal range: Miocene,
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| Fossils of the skull and mandible of G. colombianus, Museo Geológico José Royo y Gómez, Bogotá. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
| Clade: | Archosauriformes |
| Order: | Crocodilia |
| Family: | Gavialidae |
| Subfamily: | †Gryposuchinae |
| Genus: | †Gryposuchus Gurich, 1912 |
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| †Gryposuchus jessei Gurich, 1912
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Gryposuchus is an extinct genus of gavialid crocodilian. Fossils have been found from Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil and the Peruvian Amazon. The genus existed during the Miocene epoch (Colhuehuapian to Huayquerian).[2] One recently described species, G. croizati, grew to an estimated length of 10 metres (33 ft). Gryposuchus is the type genus of the subfamily Gryposuchinae, although a 2018 study indicates that Gryposuchinae and Gryposuchus might be paraphyletic and rather an evolutionary grade towards the gharial.
- ^ Rio, Jonathan P.; Mannion, Philip D. (6 September 2021). "Phylogenetic analysis of a new morphological dataset elucidates the evolutionary history of Crocodylia and resolves the long-standing gharial problem". PeerJ. 9: e12094. doi:10.7717/peerj.12094. PMC 8428266. PMID 34567843.
- ^ Cidade, Giovanne; Fortier, Daniel; Hsiou, Annie (2018-12-01). "The crocodylomorph fauna of the cenozoic of South America and its evolutionary history: A review". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 90: 392–411. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2018.12.026. S2CID 134902094.