Biology:Alligatorium
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Short description: Extinct genus of reptiles
Alligatorium | |
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A. meyeri fossil | |
Scientific classification | |
Missing taxonomy template (fix): | Archosauria/Reptilia |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Family: | †Atoposauridae |
Genus: | †Alligatorium Gervais, 1871 |
Species | |
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Alligatorium is an extinct genus of atoposaurid crocodylomorph from Late Jurassic marine deposits in France.
Systematics
The type species is A. meyeri, named in 1871 from a single specimen from Cerin, eastern France. Two more nominal species, A. franconicum, named in 1906, and A paintenense, named in 1961, are based on now-missing specimens from Bavaria, southern Germany, and were synonymized into a single species, for which A. franconicum has priority.[1] A 2016 review of Atoposauridae removed A. franconicum from Alligatorium and placed at Neosuchia incertae sedis.[2]
Alligatorium depereti, described in 1915, was reassigned to its own genus, Montsecosuchus, in 1988.[3]
References
- ↑ Tennant, Jonathan P.; Mannion, Philip D. (2014). "Revision of the Late Jurassic crocodyliformAlligatorellus, and evidence for allopatric speciation driving high diversity in western European atoposaurids" (in en). PeerJ 2: e599. doi:10.7717/peerj.599. ISSN 2167-8359. PMID 25279270.
- ↑ Tennant, Jonathan P.; Mannion, Philip D.; Upchurch, Paul (2016). "Evolutionary relationships and systematics of Atoposauridae (Crocodylomorpha: Neosuchia): implications for the rise of Eusuchia" (in en). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177 (4): 854–936. doi:10.1111/zoj.12400. ISSN 1096-3642. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1513251/1/Tennant_et_al-2016-Zoological_Journal_of_the_Linnean_Society.pdf.
- ↑ Buscalioni, A. D.; Sanz, J. L. (1988). "Phylogenetic relationships of the Atoposauridae". Historical Biology 1 (3): 233–250. doi:10.1080/08912968809386477.
Wikidata ☰ Q4732673 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligatorium.
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