Reptilia - Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
Alternative combination: Crocodilus aptus
Full reference: J. Leidy. 1869. Notice of some extinct vertebrates from Wyoming and Dakota. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 21:63-67
Belongs to Crocodylus according to O. P. Hay 1930
See also Hay 1902, Leidy 1869 and Leidy 1873
Sister taxa: Crocodilus (Ichthyosuchus), Crocodilus antiquus, Crocodilus biporcatus, Crocodilus ziphodon, Crocodylus (Leptorhynchus), Crocodylus acer, Crocodylus acutus, Crocodylus affinis, Crocodylus americanus, Crocodylus anthropophagus, Crocodylus bambolii, Crocodylus caralitanus, Crocodylus chamensis, Crocodylus checchiai, Crocodylus elliotti, Crocodylus falconensis, Crocodylus gariepensis, Crocodylus gaudense, Crocodylus greenwoodi, Crocodylus grypus, 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: Its type locality is South Bitter Creek, which is in an Eocene terrestrial horizon in Wyoming
Ecology: carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (2: Wyoming collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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