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Allognathosuchus

Allognathosuchus
Temporal range: Eocene,
Life restoration of Allognathosuchus gracilis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauromorpha
Clade: Archosauriformes
Order: Crocodilia
Family: Alligatoridae
Subfamily: Alligatorinae
Genus: Allognathosuchus
Mook, 1921
Species
  • A. polyodon (Cope, 1872 [originally Crocodylus polyodon]) (type)
  • ?A. gracilis Rauhe and Rossmann, 1995
  • A. heterodon (Cope, 1872 [originally Alligator heterodon])
  • ?A. wartheni Case, 1925
  • ?A. woutersi Buffetaut, 1985

Allognathosuchus (meaning "other jaw crocodile") is an extinct genus of alligatorine crocodylian with a complicated taxonomic history. It was named in 1921.[2]

  1. ^ Rio, Jonathan P.; Mannion, Philip D. (6 September 2021). "Phylogenetic analysis of a new morphological dataset elucidates the evolutionary history of Crocodylia and resolves the long-standing gharial problem". PeerJ. 9: e12094. doi:10.7717/peerj.12094. PMC 8428266. PMID 34567843.
  2. ^ C. C. Mook. 1921. Allognathosuchus, a new genus of Eocene crocodilians. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 44:105-110

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