Eoalligator
| Eoalligator | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
| Clade: | Archosauriformes |
| Order: | Crocodilia |
| Superfamily: | Alligatoroidea |
| Clade: | Globidonta |
| Clade: | †Orientalosuchina |
| Genus: | †Eoalligator Young, 1964 |
| Type species | |
| †Eoalligator chunyii Young, 1964
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Eoalligator is an
crocodilian from Paleocene
deposits in China.
Systematics
Eoalligator was originally classified as an extinct relative of
alligatoroid distinct from E. chunyii, and thus moved Eoalligator huiningensis to the new genus Protoalligator.[3]
A 2019 study by Massonne et al. included additional taxa from Southeast Asia and found Eoalligator and Protoalligator to be related and as basal members of Alligatoroidea, as shown in the cladogram below:[5]
| Alligatoroidea |
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References
- ^ Young, C.-C. (1964). "New fossil crocodiles from China" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica (in Chinese (China) and English). 8 (2): 189–208.
- ^ Young CC. 1982. A Cenozoic crocodile from Huaining, Anhui. Selected Works of Yang Zhongjian. China: Academia Sinica. 47-48.
- ^ PMID 27635329.
- ^ Xiao-Chun Wu; Chun Li; Yan-Yin Wang (2017). "Taxonomic reassessment and phylogenetic test of Asiatosuchus nanlingensis Young, 1964 and Eoalligator chunyii Young, 1964". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 56 (2): 137–146.
- PMID 31720094.