Paleosuchus
Paleosuchus Temporal range: Late Pleistocene - Recent,
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Paleosuchus palpebrosus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Crocodilia |
Family: | Alligatoridae |
Subfamily: | Caimaninae |
Genus: | Paleosuchus Gray, 1862 |
Species | |
Paleosuchus is a South American genus of reptiles in the subfamily Caimaninae of the family Alligatoridae. They are the smallest members of the order Crocodilia in the Americas.[2] The genus contains two species:[3]
Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
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P. palpebrosus | Cuvier's dwarf caiman | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela | |
P. trigonatus | Smooth-fronted caiman | Amazon and Orinoco Basins |
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. PMC 8428266. PMID 34567843.
- ^ Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey (2014). The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed at http://animaldiversity.org.
- ^ Alderton, D. (1991). Crocodiles and Alligators of the World. New York: Facts on File Publications.
External links[]
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Categories:
- Alligatoridae
- Reptile genera
- Taxa named by John Edward Gray
- Archosaur stubs