Alligator mcgrewi Schmidt 1941 (alligator)

Reptilia - Crocodylia - Alligatoridae

Full reference: K. P. Schmidt. 1941. A new fossil alligator from Nebraska. Geological Series of Field Museum of Natural History 8(4):27-32

Belongs to Alligator according to J. P. Rio and P. D. Mannion 2021

See also Brochu 1999, Schmidt 1941 and Snyder 2007

Sister taxa: Alligator darwini, Alligator gaudryi, Alligator hailensis, Alligator hantoniensis, Alligator heterodon, Alligator luicus, Alligator mefferdi, Alligator mississippiensis, Alligator munensis, Alligator olseni, Alligator prenasalis, Alligator sinensis, Alligator thomsoni

Type specimen: F.M. No. P26242, a skull (nearly complete skull and rami). Its type locality is Aletomeryx Quarry, which is in a Hemingfordian terrestrial horizon in the Runningwater Formation of Nebraska.

Ecology: carnivore

Distribution: found only at Aletomeryx Quarry

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