Alligatorium Temporal range: Kimmeridgian-early Tithonian, 157.3–152.3 Ma |
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A. meyeri fossil | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Family: | †Atoposauridae |
Genus: |
†Alligatorium Gervais, 1871 |
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Alligatorium is an extinct genus of atoposaurid crocodylomorph from Late Jurassic marine deposits in France.
The type species is A. meyeri, named in 1871 from a single specimen from Cerin, eastern France. Two more nominal species, A. franconicum, named in 1906, and A paintenense, named in 1961, are based on now-missing specimens from Bavaria, southern Germany, and were synonymized into a single species, for which A. franconicum has priority. A 2016 review of Atoposauridae removed A. franconicum from Alligatorium and placed at Neosuchia incertae sedis.
Alligatorium depereti, described in 1915, was reassigned to its own genus, Montsecosuchus, in 1988.