Dadagavialis

Dadagavialis; Temporal range: Oligocene-Miocene, 23.03–15.97 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Archosauria
Order:	Crocodilia
Family:	Gavialidae
Subfamily:	†Gryposuchinae
Genus:	†Dadagavialis; Salas-Gismondi et al., 2018
Species
	†Dadagavialis gunai Salas-Gismondi et al., 2018 (type);

Dadagavialis is an extinct monospecific genus of gavialid crocodylian that lived during the Early Miocene in what is now Panama. It was described in 2018, and was proposed to be a member of Gryposuchinae.^[2] However, other studies have shown Gryposuchinae to be paraphyletic and rather an evolutionary grade towards the living gharial, and thus Dadagavialis might just be classified as a member of Gavialidae.^[1]

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