Reptilia - Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
Alternative spelling: Crocodilus
Parent taxon: Crocodylinae according to J. P. Rio and P. D. Mannion 2021
See also Andrews 1906, Arcucci et al. 2004, Burney et al. 2008, Carroll 1988, Cisneros 2005, Cope 1875, d'Orbigny 1849, Fiorelli and Calvo 2008, Frank and Ramus 1996, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hekkala et al. 2021, Jouve et al. 2008, Lambe 1908, Lang and Guilette 2002, Larsson and Sues 2007, Leidy 1860, Leidy 1873, Martin and Buffetaut 2008, Meyer 1845, Miller 1967, Miller 1980, Mook 1962, Morgan 1994, Nascimento and Zaher 2011, Owen 1842, Perrier 1928, Pol and Norell 2004, Puértolas et al. 2011, Sahni and Mishra 1975, Willis 1993 and Zaher et al. 2006
Sister taxa: Aigialosuchus, Dzungarisuchus, Mecistops, Tadzhikosuchus
Subtaxa: 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 halli 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: Crocodylus niloticus
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 (39), 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), Venezuela (1)
• Hemphillian of Mexico (3)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Italy (9), Kenya (3), Tanzania (1)
• Miocene of Chad (1), India (2), Italy (7), Kenya (10), 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)
• Neogene of Myanmar (1)
• Oligocene of Egypt (4)
• Eocene of China (1), Germany (1), India (1), United States (29: Louisiana, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Paleocene of Mali (1)
• Cretaceous of New Zealand (1)
Total: 281 collections including 323 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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