Caiman brevirostris
| Caiman brevirostris Temporal range: Late Miocene,
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Crocodilia |
| Family: | Alligatoridae |
| Subfamily: | Caimaninae |
| Clade: | Jacarea |
| Genus: | Caiman |
| Species: | †C. brevirostris
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| †Caiman brevirostris Souza Filho, 1987
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Caiman brevirostris is an extinct species of caiman described in 1987. They lived in the Late Miocene period.[2] Their range was principally in what is now southern Amazonia, Brazil.
References[]
- ^ Rio, Jonathan P.; Mannion, Philip D. (6 September 2021). "Phylogenetic analysis of a new morphological dataset elucidates the evolutionary history of Crocodylia and resolves the long-standing gharial problem". PeerJ. 9: e12094. doi:10.7717/peerj.12094.
- ^ https://www.mindat.org/taxon-8499762.html Mindat
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