Eocaiman

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Eocaiman
Temporal range: Early Paleocene - Eocene, 66–37.8 Ma[1]
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Crocodilia
Family: Alligatoridae
Subfamily: Caimaninae
Genus: †Eocaiman
Simpson 1933
Species
  • †E. cavernensis Simpson 1933 (type)
  • †E. palaeocenicus Bona 2007
  • †E. itaboraiensis Pinheiro et al 2013

Eocaiman is an extinct genus of caiman containing species living from the Early Paleocene to Eocene in what is now Argentina ( and ), Itaboraí Formation of Brazil and Colombia (Honda Group).[2][3] Eocaiman contains three described species: E. cavernensis, E. palaeocenicus, and E. itaboraiensis, and is typically recovered as one of the more basal members of Caimaninae.[1][4]

References[]

  1. ^ a b 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. PMC 8428266. PMID 34567843.
  2. ^ Eocaiman at Fossilworks.org
  3. ^ André E.P. Pinheiro; Daniel C. Fortier; Diego Pol; Diógenes A. Campos; Lílian P. Bergqvist (2013). "A new Eocaiman (Alligatoridae, Crocodylia) from the Itaboraí Basin, Paleogene of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 25 (3): 327–337. doi:10.1080/08912963.2012.705838. S2CID 84897348.
  4. ^ Paula Bona; Martín D. Ezcurra; Francisco Barrios; María V. Fernandez Blanco (2018). "A new Palaeocene crocodylian from southern Argentina sheds light on the early history of caimanines". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 285 (1885): 20180843. doi:10.1098/rspb.2018.0843. PMC 6125902. PMID 30135152.

Further reading[]

  • The Osteology of the Reptiles (page 605)

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