Previously unknown crocodile species lived in Asia 39 million years ago

[Still Waters]

Researchers from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of Tübingen have identified fossils of a previously unknown crocodile species in Vietnam. The nearly four-meter-long, almost completely preserved skeleton from the Na Duong site is part of the group of long-snouted crocodiles from the gharial family. The fossil, which is between 35 and 39 million years old, provides new information about the spread of these crocodiles from their origins in North Africa and Western Europe to Southeast Asia. 

https://phys.org/news/2022-05-previously-unknown-crocodile-species-asia.html

The study has been published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2022.2054372