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Collection of useful crocodilian cladograms and references
Crocodylidae cladogram (from 2021 Azzara et al. )
Crocodylidae
Paleoafrican Crocodylus
Neotropical Crocodylus
Indo-Pacific Crocodylus
Crocodylinae cladogram (from 2021 Azzara et al. )
Crocodylinae
Paleoafrican Crocodylus
Neotropical Crocodylus
Indo-Pacific Crocodylus
Crocodylidae cladogram (from 2021 Hekkala et al. )
Crocodylinae cladogram (from 2021 Hekkala et al. )
Alligatoroidea cladogram (from 2018 Bona et al. )
Gavialoidea cladogram (from 2022 Iijima et al. ) with little continent pictures
Studies supporting Longirostres
2021 Rio & Mannion really in-depth morphological study with revised data set to align with molecular data.
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2012 Erickson et al. bite force study referencing 2008 Gatesy study.
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2021 Hekkala et al. study using DNA of extinct
Voay crocodile species and referencing 2018 Lee & Yates study.
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Fossil morphological studies showing Brevirostres
^ Darlim, G.; Lee, M. S. Y.; Walter, J.; Rabi, M. (2022). "The impact of molecular data on the phylogenetic position of the putative oldest crown crocodilian and the age of the clade".
Biology Letters . 18 (2): 20210603.
doi :
10.1098/rsbl.2021.0603 .
^ 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 .
^ Michael S. Y. Lee; Adam M. Yates (27 June 2018).
"Tip-dating and homoplasy: reconciling the shallow molecular divergences of modern gharials with their long fossil" .
Proceedings of the Royal Society B . 285 (1881).
doi :
10.1098/rspb.2018.1071 .
PMC
6030529 .
PMID
30051855 .
^ Harshman, J.; Huddleston, C. J.; Bollback, J. P.; Parsons, T. J.; Braun, M. J. (2003).
"True and false gharials: A nuclear gene phylogeny of crocodylia" (PDF) .
Systematic Biology . 52 (3): 386–402.
doi :
10.1080/10635150309323 .
PMID
12775527 .
^ Willis, R. E.; McAliley, L. R.; Neeley, E. D.; Densmore Ld, L. D. (June 2007). "Evidence for placing the false gharial (Tomistoma schlegelii ) into the family Gavialidae: Inferences from nuclear gene sequences".
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 43 (3): 787–794.
doi :
10.1016/j.ympev.2007.02.005 .
PMID
17433721 .
^ Gatesy, J.; Amato, G. (2008). "The rapid accumulation of consistent molecular support for intergeneric crocodylian relationships".
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 48 (3): 1232–1237.
doi :
10.1016/j.ympev.2008.02.009 .
PMID
18372192 .
^ Erickson, G. M.; Gignac, P. M.; Steppan, S. J.; Lappin, A. K.; Vliet, K. A.; Brueggen, J. A.; Inouye, B. D.; Kledzik, D.; Webb, G. J. W. (2012). Claessens, Leon (ed.).
"Insights into the ecology and evolutionary success of crocodilians revealed through bite-force and tooth-pressure experimentation" .
PLOS ONE . 7 (3): e31781.
Bibcode :
2012PLoSO...731781E .
doi :
10.1371/journal.pone.0031781 .
PMC
3303775 .
PMID
22431965 .
^ Hekkala, E.; Gatesy, J.; Narechania, A.; Meredith, R.; Russello, M.; Aardema, M. L.; Jensen, E.; Montanari, S.; Brochu, C.; Norell, M.; Amato, G. (2021-04-27).
"Paleogenomics illuminates the evolutionary history of the extinct Holocene "horned" crocodile of Madagascar, Voay robustus" .
Communications Biology . 4 (1): 505.
doi :
10.1038/s42003-021-02017-0 .
ISSN
2399-3642 .
PMC
8079395 .
PMID
33907305 .
^ Delfino, M.; Smith, T. (2009).
"A reassessment of the morphology and taxonomic status of 'Crocodylus'depressifronsBlainville, 1855 (Crocodylia, Crocodyloidea) based on the Early Eocene remains from Belgium" .
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 156 : 140.
doi :
10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00478.x .
^ Brochu, C. A. (2011).
"Phylogenetic relationships of Necrosuchus ionensis Simpson, 1937 and the early history of caimanines" .
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 163 : S228–S256.
doi :
10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00716.x .
^ Puértolas, Eduardo; Canudo, José I.; Cruzado-Caballero, Penélope (2011).
"A New Crocodylian from the Late Maastrichtian of Spain: Implications for the Initial Radiation of Crocodyloids" .
PLoS ONE . 6 (6): e20011.
doi :
10.1371/journal.pone.0020011 .
PMC
3110596 .
PMID
21687705 . {{
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^ Holliday, Casey M.; Gardner, Nicholas M. (2012). Farke, Andrew A (ed.).
"A new eusuchian crocodyliform with novel cranial integument and its significance for the origin and evolution of Crocodylia" .
PLOS ONE . 7 (1): e30471.
Bibcode :
2012PLoSO...730471H .
doi :
10.1371/journal.pone.0030471 .
PMC
3269432 .
PMID
22303441 . {{
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^ Narváez, Iván; Brochu, Christopher A.; Escaso, Fernando; Pérez-García, Adán; Ortega, Francisco (2015).
"New crocodyliforms from southwestern Europe and definition of a diverse clade of European Late Cretaceous basal eusuchians" .
PLOS ONE . 10 (11): e0140679.
doi :
10.1371/journal.pone.0140679 .
PMC
4633049 .
PMID
26535893 .
^ Narváez, I.; Brochu, C.A.; Escaso, F.; Pérez-García, A.; Ortega, F. (2016).
"New Spanish Late Cretaceous eusuchian reveals the synchronic and sympatric presence of two allodaposuchids" .
Cretaceous Research . 65 : 112–125.
doi :
10.1016/j.cretres.2016.04.018 .
^ Yan-Yin Wang; Corwin Sullivan; Jun Liu.
"Taxonomic revision of Eoalligator (Crocodylia, Brevirostres) and the paleogeographic origins of the Chinese alligatoroids" .
PeerJ . 4 : e2356.
doi :
10.7717/peerj.2356 .
PMC
5012266 .
PMID
27635329 .
^ Xiao-Chun Wu; Chun Li; Yan-Yin Wang (2017).
"Taxonomic reassessment and phylogenetic test of Asiatosuchus nanlingensis Young, 1964 and Eoalligator chunyii Young, 1964" .
Vertebrata PalAsiatica . 56 (2): 137–146.
^ Tobias Massonne; Davit Vasilyan; Márton Rabi; Madelaine Böhme (2019).
"A new alligatoroid from the Eocene of Vietnam highlights an extinct Asian clade independent from extant Alligator sinensis " .
PeerJ . 7 : e7562.
doi :
10.7717/peerj.7562 .
PMC
6839522 .
PMID
31720094 .
^ Adam P. Cossette; Christopher A. Brochu (2020).
"A systematic review of the giant alligatoroid Deinosuchus from the Campanian of North America and its implications for the relationships at the root of Crocodylia" .
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . Online edition: e1767638.
doi :
10.1080/02724634.2020.1767638 .
^ Blanco, A. (2021).
"Importance of the postcranial skeleton in eusuchian phylogeny: Reassessing the systematics of allodaposuchid crocodylians" .
PLoS ONE . 16 (6): e0251900.
doi :
10.1371/journal.pone.0251900 .
^ Ristevski J, Price GJ, Weisbecker V, Salisbury SW (2021).
"First record of a tomistomine crocodylian from Australia" .
Scientific Reports . 11 : Article number 12158.
doi :
10.1038/s41598-021-91717-y .
PMC
8190066 .
PMID
34108569 .
^ Hastings, A. K.; Bloch, J. I.; Jaramillo, C. A.; Rincon, A. F.; MacFadden, B. J. (2013).
"Systematics and biogeography of crocodylians from the Miocene of Panama" .
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 33 (2): 239.
doi :
10.1080/02724634.2012.713814 .
^ Paula Bona; Martín D. Ezcurra; Francisco Barrios; María V. Fernandez Blanco (2018).
"A new Palaeocene crocodylian from southern Argentina sheds light on the early history of caimanines" .
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 285 (1885): 20180843.
doi :
10.1098/rspb.2018.0843 .
PMC
6125902 .
PMID
30135152 .
^ Azarra, Beatrice; Boschian, Giovanni; Brochu, Christopher; Delfino, Massimo; Iurino, Dawid Adam; Kimambo, Jackson Stanley; Manzi, Giorgio; Masao, Fidelis T.; Menconero, Sofia; Njau, Jackson K; Cherin, Marco (2021).
"A new cranium of Crocodylus anthropophagus from Olduvai Gorge, northern Tanzania" . Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia (Research in Paleontology and Stratigraphy) . 127 (2): 275–295.
doi :
10.13130/2039-4942/15771 .
^ Stocker, M. R.; Brochu, C. A.; Kirk, E. C. (2021).
"A new caimanine alligatorid from the Middle Eocene of Southwest Texas and implications for spatial and temporal shifts in Paleogene crocodyliform diversity" . PeerJ . 9 : e10665.
doi :
10.7717/peerj.10665 .
PMC
7812925 .
PMID
33520458 .