Species: africanus (ANDREWS, 1905) BUFFETAUT, 1982
Etymology: In reference to Africa, where the specimen was found.
= Tomistoma africanum ANDREWS, 1905
= Gavialis africanum (ANDREWS, 1905)

Holotype:

Locality: Egypt, Africa.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Middle Eocene Epoch, Paleogene Period, Lower Tertiary Subera, Lower Cenozoic Era.

Material: An almost complete mandible.

Referred material:

Number: Not given: Anterior part of a rostrum and mandible, portions of a mandible and cranial rostrum, the incomplete posterior portions of 2 skulls, and an incomplete left premaxilla, together with vertebrae scutes and limb and girdle bones.

 

MULLER, 1927

Locality: Egypt, North Africa.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Eocene Epoch, Paleogene Period, Lower Tertiary Subera, Lower Cenozoic Era.

Material:

Number: Not given: Imperfect skull and lower jaw, vertebrae, ribs, and further skull material.

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Species: gavialoides (ANDREWS, 1905) BUFFETAUT, 1982
Etymology:
= Tomistoma gavialoides ANDREWS, 1905
= Gavialis gavialoides (ANDREWS, 1905)

Holotype:

Locality: Egypt, North Africa.

Horizon: Qasr-es-Seghn Series.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Eocene Epoch, Paleogene Period, Lower Tertiary Subera, Lower Cenozoic Era.

Material: Nearly complete skull.

Referred material:

Number: Not given: Posterior portions of 2 skulls and part of a rostrum, anterior dorsal vertebra, a dermal scute, proximal half of a left scapula, and part of a right ischium.

 

MULLER, 1927

Locality: Egypt, North Africa.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lower Oligocene Epoch, Upper Paleogene Period, Upper Tertiary Subera, Middle Cenozoic.

Material:

Number: Not given: Skull and jaw material.

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Species: andrewsi STORRS, 2003
Etymology: In honor of Charles William Andrews, who was the first to study and describe African gavialids (from the Fayum of Egypt).

Holotype: KNM-LT 22943

Locality: Lothagam, Kenya.

Horizon: Lower Nawata Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Miocene Epoch, Lower Neogene Period, Upper Tertiary Subera, Middle Cenozoic Era,- Pliocene Epoch, Boundary Upper Neogene Period, Lower Quaternary Subera, Upper Cenozoic Era.

Material: A largely undeformed skull lacking pterygoids and ectopterygoids, most of the palatines, save for thier anterior tips, and virtually all of both jugals.

Referred material:

KNM-LT 23088: Fragmentary cranium and mandibles wiht numerous incomplete postcranial elements including appendicular bones, vertebrae, ribs, and osteodermal scutes.