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A reconstruction of the giant Pliocene gharial, Rhamphosuchus crassidens, with a Ganges river dolphin for size comparison.
Rhamphosuchus crassidens skull at the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology, England.
Illustration of fossil crocodylians from the Sewalik Hills in India, published in Palaeontological Memoirs and Notes of the late Hugh Falconer: With a Biographical Sketch of the Author Compiled and edited by Charles Murchison (Volume I, Rob. Hardwicke, 1868). Figures 1 and 2: Crocodilus crassidus (=Rhamphosuchus crassidens). Figures 3 and 4: Crocodilus Leptodus. Figure 5: Leptorhynchus Gangeticus. Date 1868
Illustration of fossil crocodylians from the Sewalik Hills in India, published in Palaeontological Memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer: with a biographical sketch of the author compiled and edited by Charles Murchison (Volume I, Rob. Hardwicke, 1868). Figures 1 and 2: Crocodilus crassidus (=Rhamphosuchus crassidens). Figures 3 and 4: Crocodilus Leptodus. Figure 5: Leptorhynchus Gangeticus. Date: 1868