Alligatorinae are one of two subfamilies of the family
AlligatoridaeAlligators and caimans are archosaurs, species of crocodilians and form the family Alligatoridae .- True alligators :...
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Alligatorinae are one of two subfamilies of the family
AlligatoridaeAlligators and caimans are archosaurs, species of crocodilians and form the family Alligatoridae .- True alligators :...
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Taxonomy
- Subfamily Alligatorinae
- Genus Albertochampsa
Albertochampsa is an extinct genus of globidontan alligatorid from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta. It was named in 1972 by Bruce Erickson, and the type species is A. langstoni. It is known from a skull from the Campanian-age Dinosaur Park Formation, where it was rare; Leidyosuchus is the most...
(extinct)
- Genus Chrysochampsa
Chrysochampsa is an extinct genus of alligatorine. Fossils have been found from the Golden Valley Formation of North Dakota and date back to the Wasatchian regional North American faunal stage of the early Eocene...
(extinct)
- Genus Hassiacosuchus
Hassiacosuchus is an extinct genus of small alligatorid from the early Eocene of Germany, found at the Messel pit. It was named in 1935 by K. Weitzel, and the type species is H. haupti. A second species, H. kayi, was named in 1941 by C.C. Mook for material from the Bridgerian of Wyoming, but was...
(extinct)
- Genus Navajosuchus
Navajosuchus is an extinct genus of alligatorine crocodylian. Its fossils have been found in the Paleocene-age Nacimiento Formation of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico . It was named in 1942 by Charles C. Mook, and the original type species was N. novomexicanus. N. novomexicanus was based on...
(extinct)
- Genus Ceratosuchus
Ceratosuchus is an extinct genus of alligatorine from latest Paleocene rocks of Colorado's Piceance Basin and earliest Eocene rocks of Wyoming's Bighorn Basin in North America, a slice of time known as the Clarkforkian North American Land Mammal Age. Like its modern relatives, Ceratosuchus was a...
(extinct)
- Genus Allognathosuchus
Allognathosuchus is an extinct genus of alligatorine crocodylian with a complicated taxonomic history. This small alligatorine is known for its stout jaws and bulbous teeth, found near the rear of the tooth row in upper and lower jaws. These adaptations have historically been interpreted as...
(extinct)
- Genus Hispanochampsa
Hispanochampsa is an extinct genus of alligatoroid crocodilian. More than 100 fossils dating back to the Oligocene have been found from Lleida, Spain. The genus was first named in 1936, and was initially thought to be an alligatorid...
(extinct)
- Genus Arambourgia
Arambourgia is an extinct genus of alligatorine crocodylian from Europe. It was named in 1905 and synonymized with Allognathosuchus haupti in 1990, but later reassigned as its own genus once again in 2004. It is thought to have been closely related to Hispanochampsa and Procaimanoidea...
(extinct)
- Genus Procaimanoidea
Procaimanoidea is an extinct genus of alligatorid from the Eocene of North America. It was named posthumously in 1946 by Charles W. Gilmore; the type species is P. utahensis, from the Uintan of Utah. It is based on USNM 15996, a nearly complete skull and partial left hind leg. A second species,...
(extinct)
- Genus Wannaganosuchus
Wannaganosuchus is an extinct genus of small alligatorid...
(extinct)
- Genus Alligator
An Alligator is a crocodilian in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae. The name alligator is an anglicized form of el lagarto the Spanish term for "lizard", the name by which early Spanish explorers and settlers in Florida called the alligator...
- Alligator prenasalis (extinct)
- Alligator mcgrewi (extinct)
- Alligator olseni (extinct)
- Chinese Alligator
The Chinese Alligator or Yangtze Alligator is one of two known living species of Alligator, a genus in the family Alligatoridae. The Chinese Alligator is native only to China...
, Alligator sinensis
- Alligator mefferdi (extinct)
- American Alligator
The American Alligator, Alligator mississippiensis, is one of the two living species of Alligator, a genus within the family Alligatoridae. The American Alligator is native only to the Southeastern United States, where it inhabits wetlands that frequently overlap with human-populated areas...
, Alligator mississippiensis