†Eoalligator chunyii Young 1964 (early alligator)
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Full reference: C.-C. Young. 1964. New fossil crocodiles from China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 8:189-208
Belongs to Eoalligator according to X.-C. Wu et al. 2018
See also Martin et al. 2014, Wang et al. 2016 and Young 1964
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: IVPP V.2716, a partial skull (Partial skull and lower jaws). Its type locality is 210 highway, Nanhsiung (field no. 6218), which is in a Tiffanian terrestrial horizon in the Nongshan Formation of China.
Ecology: planktonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Paleocene of China (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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