Lee と Yates は、ガビアル科内での絶滅属種の系統関係も提唱している[3]。この解析結果では、トミストマ亜科は側系統群となっている。
(一)^ ab小林快次﹃ワニと恐竜の共存 巨大ワニと恐竜の世界﹄北海道大学出版会、2013年7月25日、50-51頁。ISBN 978-4-8329-1398-1。
(二)^ Adams, A. (1854). “II. Order – Emydosaurians (Emydosauria)”. In Adams, A.; Baikie, W. B.; Barron, C.. A Manual of Natural History, for the Use of Travellers: Being a Description of the Families of the Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms: with Remarks on the Practical Study of Geology and Meteorology. London: John Van Voorst. pp. 70–71. https://books.google.com/books?id=71FAAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA70
(三)^ abcdeMichael S. Y. Lee; Adam M. Yates (27 June 2018). “Tip-dating and homoplasy: reconciling the shallow molecular divergences of modern gharials with their long fossil”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285 (1881). doi:10.1098/rspb.2018.1071.
(四)^ Holliday, Casey M.; Gardner, Nicholas M. (2012). Farke, Andrew A. ed. “A new eusuchian crocodyliform with novel cranial integument and its significance for the origin and evolution of Crocodylia”. PLOS ONE 7(1): e30471. Bibcode: 2012PLoSO...730471H. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030471. PMC 3269432. PMID 22303441. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3269432/.
(五)^ abcHarshman, J.; Huddleston, C. J.; Bollback, J. P.; Parsons, T. J.; Braun, M. J. (2003). “True and false gharials: A nuclear gene phylogeny of crocodylia”. Systematic Biology 52(3): 386–402. doi:10.1080/10635150309323. PMID 12775527. http://si-pddr.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/6275/2003C_Harshman_et_al.pdf.
(六)^ abGatesy, J.; Amato, G. (2008). “The rapid accumulation of consistent molecular support for intergeneric crocodylian relationships”. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48(3): 1232–1237. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.02.009. PMID 18372192.
(七)^ abErickson, G. M.; Gignac, P. M.; Steppan, S. J.; Lappin, A. K.; Vliet, K. A.; Brueggen, J. A.; Inouye, B. D.; Kledzik, D. et al. (2012). Claessens, Leon. ed. “Insights into the ecology and evolutionary success of crocodilians revealed through bite-force and tooth-pressure experimentation”. PLOS ONE 7(3): e31781. Bibcode: 2012PLoSO...731781E. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0031781. PMC 3303775. PMID 22431965. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3303775/.
(八)^ abcHekkala, E.; Gatesy, J.; Narechania, A.; Meredith, R.; Russello, M.; Aardema, M. L.; Jensen, E.; Montanari, S. et al. (2021-04-27). “Paleogenomics illuminates the evolutionary history of the extinct Holocene “horned” crocodile of Madagascar, Voay robustus” (英語). Communications Biology 4(1): 1–11. doi:10.1038/s42003-021-02017-0. ISSN 2399-3642. https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-021-02017-0.
(九)^ abGatesy, Jorge; Amato, G.; Norell, M.; DeSalle, R.; Hayashi, C. (2003). “Combined support for wholesale taxic atavism in gavialine crocodylians”. Systematic Biology 52(3): 403–422. doi:10.1080/10635150309329. http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~mmaduro/seminarpdf/GatesyetalSystBiol2003.pdf.
(十)^ Willis, R. E.; McAliley, L. R.; Neeley, E. D.; Densmore Ld, L. D. (June 2007). “Evidence for placing the false gharial (Tomistoma schlegelii) into the family Gavialidae: Inferences from nuclear gene sequences”. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 43(3): 787–794. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.02.005. PMID 17433721.
(11)^ 土屋健﹃地球生命 水際の興亡史﹄技術評論社、2021年7月15日、144-160頁。ISBN 978-4-297-12232-4。