ALT at night by the shoreline of Eocene Egypt, a bright light illuminates a Herugavialis that's caught a pycnodont, seafoam crashes around the large gavialoid Herugavialis is a marine gavialolid (relatives of gharials and false gharials) that lived in Egypt. its morphology was relatively similar to extant ghavialoids, but it differs in key skeletal features, like the lack of a maxilla process within its lacrimal gland, a feature which all extant crocodilians have. another thing that makes it special is that its holotype comes from the same rock layers used to construct the Great Sphinx of Giza