Reptilia - Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
Alternative spelling: Crocodilinae
Synonyms: Leidyosuchidae Nopcsa 1928, Leidyosuchinae Nopcsa 1928
Parent taxon: Crocodylidae according to J. P. Rio and P. D. Mannion 2021
See also Efimov 1982, Estes 1964, Estes 1976, Estes and Berberian 1970, Karl 2007, Kuhn 1946, Kuhn 1966, Mook 1962, Nopcsa 1928, Persson 1960 and Willis 1993
Sister taxa: Aldabrachampsus, Charactosuchus, Euthecodontinae, Leptorramphus, Osteolaeminae, Oxysdonsaurus, Oxysdonsaurus striatus, Thoracosaurinae, Tzaganosuchus, Zhyrasuchus
Subtaxa: Aigialosuchus Crocodylus Dzungarisuchus Mecistops Tadzhikosuchus
Ecology: carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (6 collections), the Bahamas (11), Cayman Islands (7), Cuba (6), Djibouti (2), the Dominican Republic (3), Egypt (1), Eritrea (3), Ethiopia (6), Guatemala (1), India (4), Indonesia (14), Israel (1), Kenya (40), Madagascar (4), Mexico (1), Niger (3), South Africa (1), Sudan (2), Tanzania (23), Thailand (2), United States (2: Georgia)
• Blancan of El Salvador (1), Mexico (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Costa Rica (1), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (3), Myanmar (2)
• Pliocene of Australia (2), Colombia (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Egypt (1), Ethiopia (2), India (4), Kenya (9), Malawi (2), Morocco (2), Papua New Guinea (1), Uganda (1), Venezuela (1)
• Hemphillian of Mexico (3)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Italy (9), Kenya (3), Tanzania (1), Uganda (5)
• Neogene of Myanmar (1)
• Miocene of Chad (1), India (2), Italy (7), Kenya (11), Libya (2), Malta (1), Morocco (1), Myanmar (3), Namibia (1), Nepal (3), Pakistan (7), Spain (1), Thailand (1), Tunisia (3), the United Arab Emirates (1), United States (3: Delaware, Texas, Virginia)
• Oligocene of Egypt (4)
• Eocene of China (2), Germany (1), India (1), United States (29: Louisiana, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Paleocene of Mali (1)
• Cretaceous of New Zealand (1), Sweden (1), Tajikistan (1), Uzbekistan (1)
Total: 293 collections including 336 occurrences