Alligatorium
Extinct genus of reptiles
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Alligatorium is an extinct genus of atoposaurid crocodylomorph from Late Jurassic marine deposits in France.
| Alligatorium Temporal range: Kimmeridgian-early Tithonian, | |
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| A. meyeri fossil | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Family: | †Atoposauridae |
| Genus: | †Alligatorium Gervais, 1871 |
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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.[1] A 2016 review of Atoposauridae removed A. franconicum from Alligatorium and placed at Neosuchia incertae sedis.[2]
Alligatorium depereti, described in 1915, was reassigned to its own genus, Montsecosuchus, in 1988.[3]
