Alligatoroidea

Alligatoroidea; Temporal range: Late Cretaceous - Recent, 83.5–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Alligators (shown above) and caimans are living members of the superfamily Alligatoroidea.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Archosauromorpha
Clade:	Archosauriformes
Order:	Crocodilia
Superfamily:	Alligatoroidea; Gray, 1844
Subgroups
	Globidonta; †Diplocynodontinae; †Deinosuchus; †Listrognathosuchus; †Leidyosuchus; †Protoalligator; †Tadzhikosuchus;

Alligatoroidea is a superfamily of crocodilians that evolved in the Late Cretaceous period. Cladistically, Alligatoroidea is Alligator mississippiensis (the American alligator) and all crocodylians more closely related to A. mississippiensis than to either Crocodylus niloticus (the Nile crocodile) or Gavialis gangeticus (the gharial).^[1]

Taxonomy

Superfamily Alligatoroidea
- Family Alligatoridae
  - Subfamily Alligatorinae
    - Genus † Albertochampsa
    - Genus Alligator
      - † Alligator mcgrewi
      - † Alligator mefferdi
      - American alligator, Alligator mississippiensis
      - † Alligator olseni
      - † Alligator prenasalis
      - Chinese alligator, Alligator sinensis
    - Genus † Allognathosuchus
    - Genus † Arambourgia
    - Genus † Ceratosuchus
    - Genus † Chrysochampsa
    - Genus † Eoalligator
    - Genus † Hassiacosuchus
    - Genus † Hispanochampsa
    - Genus † Krabisuchus
    - Genus † Navajosuchus
    - Genus † Procaimanoidea
    - Genus † Wannaganosuchus
  - Subfamily Caimaninae
    - Genus Caiman
      - Yacare caiman, Caiman yacare
      - Spectacled caiman, Caiman crocodilus
        Rio Apaporis caiman, C. c. apaporiensis
        
        Brown caiman, C. c. fuscus
      - Broad-snouted caiman, Caiman latirostris
      - † Caiman lutescans
    - Genus Melanosuchus
      - † Melanosuchus fisheri
      - Black caiman, Melanosuchus niger
    - Genus † Eocaiman
    - Genus † Mourasuchus
    - Genus † Necrosuchus
    - Genus † Orthogenysuchus
    - Genus Paleosuchus
      - Cuvier's dwarf caiman, Paleosuchus palpebrosus
      - Smooth-fronted caiman, Paleosuchus trigonatus
    - Genus † Purussaurus

^ Brochu, Christopher A. (May 2003). "Phylogenetic approaches toward crocodylian history". Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 31: 360. doi:10.1146/annurev.earth.31.100901.141308.

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