Crocodylus

Crocodylus; Fosilă: Miocen superior – prezent
	C. palustris
Clasificare științifică
Regn:	Animalia
Încrengătură:	Chordata
Clasă:	Sauropsida
Subclasă:	Diapsida
Infraclasă:	Archosauromorpha
Supraordin:	Crocodylomorpha
(neclasificat):	Archosauria
Ordin:	Crocodilia
Familie:	Crocodylidae
Gen:	Crocodylus; Laurenti, 1768
Specii
	Crocodylus acutus; Crocodylus anthropophagus †; Crocodylus cataphractus; Crocodylus checchiai †; Crocodylus falconensis †; Crocodylus intermedius; Crocodylus johnstoni; Crocodylus mindorensis; Crocodylus moreletii; Crocodylus niloticus; Crocodylus novaeguineae; Crocodylus palaeindicus †; Crocodylus palustris; Crocodylus porosus; Crocodylus rhombifer; Crocodylus siamensis; Crocodylus suchus; Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni †;
	Distribuția genului Crocodylus
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Crocodylus este unul din cele trei genuri ale subfamiliei Crocodylinae din familia Crocodylidae.

Genul include 5 specii dispărute:^[1]

și 13 specii în viață:

Filogenie[modificare | modificare sursă]

Cladogramă după Robert W. Meredith, Evon R. Hekkala, George Amato și John Gatesy.^[5]

Crocodylus

Asia‑Australia

C. porosus

	C. palustris

	C. siamensis

C. johnsoni

	C. novaeguineae

	C. mindorensis

África‑América

América

	C. acutus

	C. intermedius

Crocodyloidea

"Asiatosuchus" germanicus

Prodiplocynodon langi

Asiatosuchus grangeri

"Crocodylus" affinis

"Crocodylus" depressifrons

Brachyuranochampsa eversolei

"Crocodylus" acer

Crocodylidae

Tomistominae

Kentisuchus spenceri

Dollosuchoides densmorei

Megadontosuchus arduini

	Gavialosuchus eggenburgensis

	Toyotamaphimeia machikanensis

	Tomistoma lusitanica

	Tomistoma schlegelii

"Tomistoma" cairense

	Thecachampsa antiqua

	Thecachampsa americana

	Thecachampsa carolinense

Penghusuchus pani

	Paratomistoma courti

	"Tomistoma" petrolica

Crocodylinae

"Crocodylus" megarhinus

Mekosuchinae

Kambara implexidens

Australosuchus clarkae

	Trilophosuchus rackhami

	Quinkana

"Crocodylus" pigotti

"Crocodylus" gariepensis

	Euthecodon arambourgii

	Euthecodon brumpti

Osteolaeminae

Rimasuchus lloydi

Voay robustus

	Osteolaemus osborni

	Osteolaemus tetraspis

Mecistops cataphractus

Crocodylus

C. checchiai

C. palaeindicus

	C. anthropophagus

	C. thorbjarnarsoni

	C. novaeguineae

	C. raninus

	C. acutus

	C. intermedius

	C. rhombifer

	C. moreletii

Cladograma după Scheyer et al. (2013):^[6]

Mecistops cataphractus

Crocodylus

Crocodylus palaeindicus

Indopacífico

Crocodylus palustris

Crocodylus siamensis

Crocodylus porosus

Crocodylus mindorensis

	Crocodylus johnsoni

	Crocodylus novaeguineae

África‑América

Crocodylus niloticus

América

C. falconensis

Crocodylus moreletii

Crocodylus rhombifer

	Crocodylus acutus

	Crocodylus intermedius

Note[modificare | modificare sursă]

^ Brochu, C. A.; Storrs, G. W. (2012). „A giant crocodile from the Plio-Pleistocene of Kenya, the phylogenetic relationships of Neogene African crocodylines, and the antiquity of Crocodylus in Africa”. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (3): 587. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.652324.
^ McAliley, Willis, Ray, White, Brochu & Densmore (2006). Are crocodiles really monophyletic?—Evidence for subdivisions from sequence and morphological data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39: 16-32.
^ Brochu, C. A.; Njau, J.; Blumenschine, R. J.; Densmore, L. D. (2010). „A New Horned Crocodile from the Plio-Pleistocene Hominid Sites at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania”. PLoS ONE. 5 (2): e9333. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009333. PMC 2827537 . PMID 20195356.
^ Species | The Reptile Database, reptile-database.reptarium.cz
^ Robert W. Meredith, Evon R. Hekkala, George Amato and John Gatesy (2011), A phylogenetic hypothesis for Crocodylus (Crocodylia) based on mitochondrial DNA: Evidence for a trans-Atlantic voyage from Africa to the New World, 60, pp. 183–191, doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.03.026 Parametru necunoscut |publicație= ignorat (ajutor)
^ Scheyer, T. M.; Aguilera, O. A.; Delfino, M.; Fortier, D. C.; Carlini, A. A.; Sánchez, R.; Carrillo-Briceño, J. D.; Quiroz, L.; Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. (2013). „Crocodylian diversity peak and extinction in the late Cenozoic of the northern Neotropics”. Nature Communications. 4: 1907. doi:10.1038/ncomms2940.

Legături externe[modificare | modificare sursă]

Materiale media legate de Crocodylus la Wikimedia Commons

[C.thorbjarnarsoni-1] Brochu, C. A.; Storrs, G. W. (2012). „A giant crocodile from the Plio-Pleistocene of Kenya, the phylogenetic relationships of Neogene African crocodylines, and the antiquity of Crocodylus in Africa”. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (3): 587. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.652324.

[2] McAliley, Willis, Ray, White, Brochu & Densmore (2006). Are crocodiles really monophyletic?—Evidence for subdivisions from sequence and morphological data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39: 16-32.

[Brochu_2010-3] Brochu, C. A.; Njau, J.; Blumenschine, R. J.; Densmore, L. D. (2010). „A New Horned Crocodile from the Plio-Pleistocene Hominid Sites at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania”. PLoS ONE. 5 (2): e9333. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009333. PMC 2827537 . PMID 20195356.

[4] Species | The Reptile Database, reptile-database.reptarium.cz

[crocphylo-5] Robert W. Meredith, Evon R. Hekkala, George Amato and John Gatesy (2011), A phylogenetic hypothesis for Crocodylus (Crocodylia) based on mitochondrial DNA: Evidence for a trans-Atlantic voyage from Africa to the New World, 60, pp. 183–191, doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.03.026 Parametru necunoscut |publicație= ignorat (ajutor)

[VenezuelaCrocs-6] Scheyer, T. M.; Aguilera, O. A.; Delfino, M.; Fortier, D. C.; Carlini, A. A.; Sánchez, R.; Carrillo-Briceño, J. D.; Quiroz, L.; Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. (2013). „Crocodylian diversity peak and extinction in the late Cenozoic of the northern Neotropics”. Nature Communications. 4: 1907. doi:10.1038/ncomms2940.

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