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Crocodylus (crocodile)
Taxonomy
Crocodylus was named by Laurenti (1768). It is extant.
It was assigned to Dactylopodes by Meyer (1845); to Sauria by Leidy (1860); to Crocodilidae by Andrews (1906); to Crocodilinae by Mook (1962); to Mesoeucrocodylia by Pol and Norell (2004); to Crocodyloidea by Martin and Buffetaut (2008); to Crocodylinae by Sahni and Mishra (1975), Willis (1993) and Jouve et al. (2008); to Neosuchia by Zaher et al. (2006), Larsson and Sues (2007), Fiorelli and Calvo (2008) and Nascimento and Zaher (2011); and to Crocodylidae by Miller (1967), Miller (1980), Carroll (1988), Cisneros (2005), Burney et al. (2008) and Puértolas et al. (2011).
It was assigned to Dactylopodes by Meyer (1845); to Sauria by Leidy (1860); to Crocodilidae by Andrews (1906); to Crocodilinae by Mook (1962); to Mesoeucrocodylia by Pol and Norell (2004); to Crocodyloidea by Martin and Buffetaut (2008); to Crocodylinae by Sahni and Mishra (1975), Willis (1993) and Jouve et al. (2008); to Neosuchia by Zaher et al. (2006), Larsson and Sues (2007), Fiorelli and Calvo (2008) and Nascimento and Zaher (2011); and to Crocodylidae by Miller (1967), Miller (1980), Carroll (1988), Cisneros (2005), Burney et al. (2008) and Puértolas et al. (2011).
Species
Crocodilus antiquus, Crocodilus articeps, Crocodilus clavirostris, Crocodilus clavis, Crocodilus depressifrons, Crocodilus grinnelli, Crocodilus humilis, Crocodilus liodon, Crocodilus proavus, Crocodilus stavelianus, Crocodilus vetustus, Crocodilus ziphodon, C. acutus, C. americanus, C. anthropophagus, C. antillensis, C. cataphractus, C. checchiai, C. depressifrons, C. gariepensis, C. megarhinus, C. moreletii, C. niloticus (syn. C. madagascariensis), C. palaeindicus (syn. C. sivalensis), C. palustris, C. porosus (syn. C. nathani), C. rhombifer (syn. C. pristinus, Crocodilus pristinus), C. siamensis (syn. C. ossifragus), C. thorbjarnarsoni
Species lacking formal opinion data
Sister genera
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Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1768 | Crocodylus Laurenti |
| 1845 | Crocodylus Meyer p. 281 |
| 1860 | Crocodilus Leidy p. 146 |
| 1871 | Crocodylus affinis Marsh |
| 1871 | Crocodylus ziphodon Marsh |
| 1872 | Limnosaurus Marsh |
| 1872 | Limnosaurus ziphodon Marsh |
| 1882 | Crocodilus acer Cope |
| 1882 | Crocodylus acer Cope |
| 1890 | Crocodylus bambolii Ristori |
| 1906 | Crocodilus Andrews p. 261 |
| 1921 | Crocodylus affinis Mook p. 1 |
| 1921 | Crocodylus acer Mook p. 117 |
| 1926 | Crocodylus niloticus kaisensis Swinton |
| 1962 | Crocodylus Mook p. 5 |
| 1967 | Crocodylus Miller, Jr. p. 230 |
| 1975 | Crocodylus Sahni and Mishra |
| 1980 | Crocodylus Miller p. 773 |
| 1988 | Crocodylus Carroll |
| 1993 | Crocodylus Willis p. 96 |
| 2000 | Crocodylus affinis Zonneveld et al. |
| 2004 | Crocodylus Pol and Norell |
| 2005 | Crocodylus Cisneros p. 242 |
| 2006 | Crocodylus Zaher et al. |
| 2007 | Crocodylus Larsson and Sues |
| 2008 | Crocodylus Burney et al. p. 19 |
| 2008 | Crocodylus Fiorelli and Calvo |
| 2008 | Crocodylus Jouve et al. |
| 2008 | Crocodylus Martin and Buffetaut |
| 2011 | Crocodylus Nascimento and Zaher |
| 2011 | Crocodylus Puértolas et al. |
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