Species: gasparinae (BONA & CARABAJAL, 2013) BONA, BARROS, EZCURRA, BLANCO & CIDADE, 2025
Etymology: In honor of Dr. Zulma Brandoni de Gasparini, paleoherpetologist
at the Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, MLP, who dedicated most of her career
to the study of extinct crocodyliformes.
= Caiman gasparinae BONA & CARABAJAL, 2013
Holotype: MLP-73-IV-15-1
Locality: Margin of Parana River, in the area of Parana, Entre Rios Province, Argentina.
Horizon: Ituzaingo Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Late Miocene Epoch, Lower Neogene Period, Upper Tertiary Subera, Middle Cenozoic.
Material: Skull fragments represented by a rostrum with articulated fragments of premaxillae, maxillae, nasals, left lacrymal and a partial braincase lacking the basicranium.
Referred material:
MACN PV 5555: Fragment of right premaxilla.
MLP-Pv 73-IV015-7: Partial skull talbe, lacking the right postorbital and the posterolateral region of the right squamosal.
MLP-Pv 73-IV015-15: Left premaxilla.
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