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Gavialidae Adams, 1854
† Garialis bengawanicus Dubois, 1908
*Garialis [= Gavialis] bengawanicus Dubois, 1908: 1269.
Syntypes: (all material Java, Indonesia) RMNH.Dub 1, 2 skulls, Trinil; RMNH.Dub 2, dentary, Trinil; RMNH.Dub 5, rostrum, Trinil; RMNH.Dub 7, mandible, Trinil; RMNH.Dub 8, dentary, Trinil; RMNH.Dub 9 + 1617a, skull, Trinil; RMNH.Dub 10, 86 teeth, Trinil; RMNH.Dub 34b, 33 teeth, Trinil; RMNH.Dub 246, 3 jugals and 2 skull fragments; RMNH.Dub 1473c, 162 teeth, Trinil; RMNH.Dub 1477, 2 teeth; RMNH.Dub 1615, 190 teeth, Trinil; RMNH.Dub 1616, skull table and 10 teeth; Trinil; RMNH.Dub 1618, supraoccipital, Trinil; RMNH.Dub 1620, dentary; Trinil; RMNH.Dub 1621a, dentary, Trinil; RMNH.Dub 1623, skull, Trinil; RMNH.Dub 2655, 68 teeth, Trinil; RMNH.Dub 6401, axis, Trinil; RMNH.Dub 33, tooth, Kali Gedeh; RMNH.Dub 37b, mandible, Kedung Brubus; RMNH.Dub 2716, tooth, Kedung Brubus; RMNH.Dub 6 + 25, mandible, Kedung Lumbu; RMNH.Dub 23, 2 splenials, Ngandjar; RMNH.Dub 4 + 32 + 2715, mandible, Pitu; RMNH.Dub 37a, dentary, Teguan; RMNH.Dub 1461a, 8 teeth, Teguan or Bogo; RMNH.Dub 1614, mandible, Java; RMNH.Dub 1621b, skull fragment, Java; RMNH.Dub 12947, skull fragment, Java; RMNH.Dub 15583, osteoderm, Java, RMNH.Dub 15584, 3 osteoderms, Java. All localities are of late Early Pleistocene or Middle Pleistocene age.
Current name: † Gavialis bengawanicus Dubois, 1908.
Remarks.― Dubois (1908) clearly wrote Garialis with a ‘r’ instead of a ‘v’. This is clear from comparison with other italicized names with a ‘r’ or a ‘v’. However, Dubois (1908) compared his Garialis bengawanicus with ‘G. gangeticus’, a species for which only the generic name Gavialis ever has been used. We therefore infer that the use of the ‘r’ instead of a ‘v’ was inadvertent, and due to misinterpretation of a handwritten manuscript by the printer. Therefore there are no nomenclatural consequences.
Dubois (1908) only gave a short diagnosis of this species. Janensch (1911) provided an extensive description of the material of this species obtained by the German Trinil expedition. A full description of the material in the Dubois collection is given by Massimo & de Vos (2010).
Pictures.― Massimo & De Vos (2010): figs 1-5, 2S-15S.