Back قاطوريات الشكل Arabic قاطوريات الشكل ARZ الیگاتورواران FA Alligatoroidea Finnish Alligatoroidea French Alligatoroidea GL דמויי אליגטור HE Alligatoroidea Hungarian Alligatoroidea Italian アリゲーター上科 Japanese
| Alligatoroidea Temporal range:
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| Alligators (shown above) and caimans are living members of the superfamily Alligatoroidea. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
| Clade: | Archosauriformes |
| Order: | Crocodilia |
| Superfamily: | Alligatoroidea Gray, 1844 |
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Alligatoroidea is one of three superfamilies of crocodylians, the other two being Crocodyloidea and Gavialoidea. Alligatoroidea evolved in the Late Cretaceous period, and consists of the alligators and caimans, as well as extinct members more closely related to the alligators than the two other groups.