Genus: Crocodilus non LAURENTI, 1768

Species: pigotti TCHERNOV & COUVERING, 1978
Etymology:

Holotype: BMNH R7729

Locality: Shackleton Gully, Kaswanga, Rusinga Island, South Nyanza, Kenya, Africa.

Horizon: Below Marker Bed I, Fossil Bed Member, Hiwegi Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Miocene Epoch, Lower Neogene Period, Upper Tertiary Subera, Middle Cenozoic Era.

Material: Skull.

Referred material:

KNM RU 2560: Left ulna.

KNM RU 2561, KNM RU 2562: Right femurs.

KNM RU 2563: Proximal right humerus.

KNM RU 2564: Distal right humerus.

KNM RU 2565: Right fibula.

KNM RU 2566: Proximal left coracoid.

KNM RU 2574, 2567, 2568: Cervical vertebrae.

KNM RU 2570, 2573: Dorsal vertebrae.

KNM RU 2571: Sacral vertebra.

KNM RU 2575: Frontoparietal.

KNM RU 2576: Right jugal.

KNM RU 2577: Left ectopterygoid.

KNM RU 2578: Basioccipital.

KNM RU 2579: Right jugal.

KNM RU 2580: Partial left dentary.

KNM RU 2581: Right surangular.

KNM RU 2582, 2583: Partial right dentaires.

KNM RU 2584: Right angular.

KNM RU 2596: 5 scutes.

KNM RU 2597: Fragmentary right maxilla.

 

BUFFETAUT, 1984

Locality: Locality 6, Al Sarrar, eastern Saudi Arabia.

Horizon: Dam Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Miocene Epoch, Lower Neogene Period, Upper Tertiary Subera, Middle Cenozoic Era.

Material:

AS 802: Anterior end of mandible.

 

Locality: Locality 7, Al Sarrar, eastern Saudi Arabia.

Horizon: Dam Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Miocene Epoch, Lower Neogene Period, Upper Tertiary Subera, Middle Cenozoic Era.

Material:

AS 979: Anterior end of mandible.

 

Locality: Locality 11, Al Sarrar, eastern Saudi Arabia.

Horizon: Dam Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Miocene Epoch, Lower Neogene Period, Upper Tertiary Subera, Middle Cenozoic Era.

Material:

AS 955: A small piece of a right maxilla.

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