Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia - (Order) Crocodylia

Phylogeny

Node-based clade		Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2003: fig. 1.
Crown clade		Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2003: fig. 1. [implicit]

Defined by included taxon (and all taxa more closely related to it than to the excluded taxon)

Crocodylus niloticus Laurenti, 1768

Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2003: table 1 (p. 360).

Defined by excluded taxon

Alligator mississippiensis (Daudin, 1802)		Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2003: table 1 (p. 360).
Gavialis gangeticus (Gmelin, 1789)		Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2003: table 1 (p. 360).

Original entries

†Arenysuchus (Genus) Puértolas, Canudo & Cruzado-Caballero, 2011

Ref: E. Puértolas et al., 2011: 3.

Current position

Brevirostres (Clade) von Zittel 1890 [Brochu 2003]

Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2012: fig. 13.

Alternative positions

Eusuchia (Suborder) Huxley, 1875

Ref: J.E. Martin & M.J. Benton, 2008: fig. 2. [inferred rank]

Historical positions

Brevirostres (Clade) von Zittel 1890 [Brochu 2003]	Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2012: 532, fig. 13.
Brevirostres (Clade) von Zittel 1890 [Brochu 2003]	Ref: E. Puértolas et al., 2011: 3, fig. 5.
Eusuchia (Suborder) Huxley, 1875	Ref: J.E. Martin & M.J. Benton, 2008: fig. 2. [inferred rank]
Brevirostres (Clade) von Zittel 1890 [Brochu 2003]	Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2003: table 1 (p. 360), figs. 1, 2.

Number of Subtaxa

1989-present

Systema Naturae 2000: 28 Oct 2016

[1f;4g;16s]