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Eoalligator chunyii

Osteichthyes

Taxonomy
Eoalligator chunyii was named by Young (1964). Its type specimen is IVPP V.2716, a partial skull (Partial skull and lower jaws), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is 210 highway, Nanhsiung (field no. 6218), which is in a Tiffanian terrestrial horizon in the Nongshan Formation of China. It is the type species of Eoalligator.

It was synonymized subjectively with Asiatosuchus nanlingensis by Martin et al. (2014), Wang et al. (2016).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1964Eoalligator chunyii Young p. 202
2018Eoalligator chunyii Wu et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
RankNameAuthor
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
Pseudosuchia(Zittel 1890)
SuchiaKrebs 1974
Paracrocodylomorpha
Loricata(Merrem 1820)
Crocodylomorpha()
Solidocrania
suborderCrocodyliformes
MesoeucrocodyliaWhetstone and Whybrow 1983
NeosuchiaClark 1988
suborderEusuchiaHuxley 1875
Crocodylia(Owen 1842)
Alligatoroidea(Gray 1844)
Globidonta
Orientalosuchina
genusEoalligator
specieschunyii

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Eoalligator chunyii Young 1964
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marineuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: carnivoreuc
Created: 2009-01-03 20:38:59
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:38:59
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Benton 1983, Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Tiffanian or 60.90000 to 56.20000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Tiffanian60.9 - 56.2China (Guangdong) Eoalligator chunyii (123374 type locality: 123375 123376)