Alligatorium
{{Short description|Extinct genus of reptiles}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = Kimmeridgian-early Tithonian, {{fossilrange|157.3|152.3}}
| image = Alligatorium meyeri 654.JPG
| image_caption = A. meyeri fossil
| taxon = Alligatorium
| authority = Gervais, 1871
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
- A. meyeri Gervais, 1871 (type)
}}
Alligatorium is an extinct genus of atoposaurid crocodylomorph from Late Jurassic marine deposits in France.
Systematics
The type species is A. meyeri, named in 1871 from a single specimen from Cerin, eastern France. Two more nominal species, A. franconicum, named in 1906, and A paintenense, named in 1961, are based on now-missing specimens from Bavaria, southern Germany, and were synonymized into a single species, for which A. franconicum has priority.{{Cite journal|last1=Tennant|first1=Jonathan P.|last2=Mannion|first2=Philip D.|year=2014|title=Revision of the Late Jurassic crocodyliformAlligatorellus, and evidence for allopatric speciation driving high diversity in western European atoposaurids|journal=PeerJ|language=en|volume=2|pages=e599|doi=10.7717/peerj.599|issn=2167-8359|pmc=4179893|pmid=25279270 |doi-access=free }} A 2016 review of Atoposauridae removed A. franconicum from Alligatorium and placed at Neosuchia incertae sedis.{{Cite journal|last1=Tennant|first1=Jonathan P.|last2=Mannion|first2=Philip D.|last3=Upchurch|first3=Paul|year=2016|title=Evolutionary relationships and systematics of Atoposauridae (Crocodylomorpha: Neosuchia): implications for the rise of Eusuchia|journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society|language=en|volume=177|issue=4|pages=854–936|doi=10.1111/zoj.12400|issn=1096-3642|url=http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1513251/1/Tennant_et_al-2016-Zoological_Journal_of_the_Linnean_Society.pdf|doi-access=free}}
Alligatorium depereti, described in 1915, was reassigned to its own genus, Montsecosuchus, in 1988.{{cite journal |last=Buscalioni |first=A. D. |author2=Sanz, J. L. |year=1988 |title=Phylogenetic relationships of the Atoposauridae |journal=Historical Biology |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=233–250 |doi=10.1080/08912968809386477|doi-access=free }}
==References==
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Category:Late Jurassic crocodylomorphs of Europe
Category:Fossil taxa described in 1871
Category:Prehistoric pseudosuchian genera
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