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Protoalligator

Protoalligator
Temporal range: Paleocene
EoalligatorHuiningensis-PaleozoologicalMuseumOfChina-May23-08.jpg
Partial skull and jaw of Protoalligator huiningensis, on display at the Paleozoological Museum of China
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Crocodilia
Superfamily: Alligatoroidea
Genus: Protoalligator
Wang, Sullivan & Liu, 2016

Protoalligator is an extinct genus of crocodilian which lived during the Paleocene. It is considered to be an alligatoroid, but its exact phylogeny is uncertain.

The type species, P. huiningensis, was originally named Eoalligator huiningensis. However, the type species of Eoalligator, E. chunyii, is more closely related to crocodiles than to alligators, so in 2016 the new genus Protoalligator was coined for "E." huiningensis.


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