Gavialimimus

Gavialimimus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
Reconstructed skeleton of an indeterminate Moroccan plioplatecarpine, possibly a specimen of Gavialimimus
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Clade: Mosasauria
Family: Mosasauridae
Clade: Russellosaurina
Clade: Selmasaurini
Genus: Gavialimimus
Strong et al., 2020
Type species
Gavialimimus almaghribensis
Strong et al., 2020
Synonyms
  • Platecarpus ptychodon? Arambourg, 1952
  • Gavialimimus ptychodon? (Arambourg, 1952)

Gavialimimus is an extinct genus of plioplatecarpine mosasaur from the Maastrichtian of Morocco and possibly Angola.