Reptilia - Crocodylia - Crocodylidae

Full reference: C. M. Murray, P. Russo, Zorrilla and C. D. McMahan. 2019. Divergent morphology among populations of the New Guinea Crocodile, Crocodylus novaeguineae (Schmidt, 1928): diagnosis of an independent lineage and description of a new species. Copeia 107(3):517-423

Belongs to Crocodylus according to C. M. Murray et al. 2019

Sister taxa: Crocodilus (Ichthyosuchus), Crocodilus antiquus, Crocodilus biporcatus, Crocodilus ziphodon, Crocodylus (Leptorhynchus), Crocodylus acer, Crocodylus acutus, Crocodylus affinis, Crocodylus americanus, Crocodylus anthropophagus, Crocodylus aptus, Crocodylus bambolii, Crocodylus caralitanus, Crocodylus chamensis, Crocodylus checchiai, Crocodylus elliotti, Crocodylus falconensis, Crocodylus gariepensis, Crocodylus gaudense, Crocodylus grypus, Crocodylus heterodon, Crocodylus intermedius, Crocodylus johnstoni, Crocodylus megarhinus, Crocodylus mindorensis, Crocodylus moreletii, Crocodylus niloticus, Crocodylus niloticus kaisensis, Crocodylus novaeguineae, Crocodylus palaeindicus, Crocodylus palustris, Crocodylus parvus, Crocodylus polyodon, Crocodylus porosus, Crocodylus raninus, Crocodylus rhombifer, Crocodylus siamensis, Crocodylus solaris, Crocodylus stavelianus, Crocodylus subulatus, Crocodylus suchus, Crocodylus sulciferus, Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni, Crocodylus wheelerii, Crocodylus ziphodon, Limnosaurus

Type specimen: USNM 211290, a skull (skull with mandibles; sex unknown)

Ecology: carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Crocodylus halli in the database

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.