Toyotamaphimeia
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Toyotamaphimeia Temporal range: |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Crocodilia |
| Subfamily: | Tomistominae |
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†Toyotamaphimeia Aoki, 1983 |
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Toyotamaphimeia machikanensis (Kobatake et al., 1965) |
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Toyotamaphimeia machikanensis is an extinct tomistomine crocodylian from -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).
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