Crocodyloidea

Eumetazoa

Crocodyloidea Temporal range: Late Cretaceous - Recent, 83.5–0 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Superorder:	Crocodylomorpha
Order:	Crocodylia
Node:	Brevirostres
Superfamily:	Crocodyloidea Fitzinger, 1826
Families and Genera
†Arenysuchus †Asiatosuchus Crocodylidae †Prodiplocynodon

Crocodyloidea is a superfamily of crocodilians that evolved in the Late Cretaceous period. Cladistically, it is defined as Crocodylus niloticus (the Nile crocodile) and all crocodylians more closely related to C. niloticus than to either Alligator mississippiensis (the American alligator) or Gavialis gangeticus (the gharial).^[1]

Phylogeny

Cladogram after Brochu C. A., Njau J., Blumenschine R. J., Densmore L. D. (2010)^[2].

Borealosuchus Pristichampsus  Brevirostres  Leidyosuchus  Crocodyloidea  Prodiplocynodon Asiatosuchus "Crocodylus" affinis "Crocodylus" depressifrons Brachyuranochampsa "Crocodylus" acer  Crocodylidae   Tomistominae  Dollosuchoides Gavialosuchus Kentisuchus Tomistoma  Crocodylinae  "Crocodylus" megarhinus  Mekosuchinae  Kambara Australosuchus Trilophosuchus  Osteolaeminae  Rimasuchus "Crocodylus" pigotti Euthecodon Voay Osteolaemus osborni O. tetraspis Mecistops Crocodylus anthropophagus C. palaeindicus C. palustris C. siamensis C. porosus C. johnsoni C. novaeguineae C. mindorensis C. niloticus C. acutus C. intermedius C. rhombifer C. moreletii

References

1. ^ Brochu, Christopher A. (May 2003). "Phylogenetic approaches toward crocodylian history". Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 31: 360. doi:10.1146/annurev.earth.31.100901.141308. 
2. ^ Brochu C. A., Njau J., Blumenschine R. J., Densmore L. D. (2010) "A New Horned Crocodile from the Plio-Pleistocene Hominid Sites at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. PLoS ONE 5(2): e9333. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009333