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Crocodyloid

Crocodyloidea
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous - Recent, 83.5–0 Ma
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Crocodylus niloticus (Nile crocodile)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Crocodilia
Clade: Brevirostres
Superfamily: Crocodyloidea
Fitzinger, 1826
Subgroups

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The Crocodyloidea superfamily of crocodilians evolved in the Late Cretaceous period. Cladistically, it is defined as Crocodylus niloticus (the Nile crocodile) and all crocodylians more closely related to C. niloticus than to either Alligator mississippiensis (the American alligator) or Gavialis gangeticus (the gharial).

Cladogram after Brochu C. A., Njau J., Blumenschine R. J., Densmore L. D. (2010).

Borealosuchus

Pristichampsus

Leidyosuchus canadensis

Prodiplocynodon langi

Asiatosuchus grangeri

"Crocodylus" affinis

"Crocodylus" depressifrons

Brachyuranochampsa

"Crocodylus" acer

Dollosuchoides

Gavialosuchus

Kentisuchus

Tomistoma

"Crocodylus" megarhinus

Kambara


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