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Gavialimimus
| Gavialimimus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Reconstructed skeleton of an indeterminate Moroccan plioplatecarpine, possibly G. almaghribensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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
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Gavialimimus is an extinct genus of plioplatecarpine mosasaur from the Maastrichtian of Morocco and possibly Angola. It was a medium-sized mosasaur measuring around 6 metres (20 ft) in total body length.[1]
- ^ Cooper, S.L.A.; Marson, K.J.; Smith, R.E.; Martill, D. (2022). "Contrasting preservation in pycnodont fishes reveals first record of regurgitalites from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Moroccan phosphate deposits". Cretaceous Research. 131 (4). 105111. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2021.105111.
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