Brevirostres
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Brevirostres is an obsolete group of crocodilians that, as originally formulated, included alligatoroids and crocodyloids, but not gavialoids. Results of molecular phylogenetic analysis uniformly draw
Alligator from front
Longirostres
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Longirostres is a clade of crocodilians that includes the crocodiles and the gavialids, to the exclusion of the alligatoroids. Defined in 2003 by Harshman et al., Longirostres is a crown group defined
Brevirostres
…render Brevirostres redundant with Crocodylia upon finding the crocodiles and gavialids to be more closely related than the alligators. The new clade Longirostres was defined by Harshman et al. in 2003, and can be shown in the cladogram below: Brevirostres was first named by Karl Alfred von Zittel in 1890. Von…
Crocodylus niloticus in Lake Chamo 02
Gharial female head