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Eoalligator (early alligator)
Taxonomy
Eoalligator was named by Young (1964). Its type is Eoalligator chunyii.
It was synonymized subjectively with Asiatosuchus by Wang et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Alligatorinae by Young (1964), Kuhn (1966) and Young (1982); to Alligatoridae by Carroll (1988); to Crocodylinae by Wu et al. (2018); and to Orientalosuchina by Massonne et al. (2019) and Shan et al. (2021).
It was synonymized subjectively with Asiatosuchus by Wang et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Alligatorinae by Young (1964), Kuhn (1966) and Young (1982); to Alligatoridae by Carroll (1988); to Crocodylinae by Wu et al. (2018); and to Orientalosuchina by Massonne et al. (2019) and Shan et al. (2021).
Species
E. chunyii (type species)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1964 | Eoalligator Young |
| 1966 | Eoalligator Kuhn p. 87 |
| 1982 | Eoalligator Young |
| 1988 | Eoalligator Carroll |
| 2018 | Eoalligator Wu et al. |
| 2019 | Eoalligator Massonne et al. |
| 2021 | Eoalligator Shan et al. |
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available