Alligatorium

Alligatorium
Temporal range: Kimmeridgian-early Tithonian, 157.3–152.3 Ma
Alligatorium meyeri 654.JPG
A. meyeri fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Superorder: Crocodylomorpha
Family: Atoposauridae
Genus: Alligatorium
Gervais, 1871
Species
  • A. meyeri Gervais, 1871 (type)

Alligatorium is an extinct genus of atoposaurid crocodylomorph from Late Jurassic marine deposits in France.

Systematics

The type species is A. meyeri, named in 1871 from a single specimen from Cerin, eastern France. Two more nominal species, A. franconicum, named in 1906, and A paintenense, named in 1961, are based on now-missing specimens from Bavaria, southern Germany, and were synonymized into a single species, for which A. franconicum has priority. A 2016 review of Atoposauridae removed A. franconicum from Alligatorium and placed at Neosuchia incertae sedis.

Alligatorium depereti, described in 1915, was reassigned to its own genus, Montsecosuchus, in 1988.



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