Crocodilia

Incidentally, have you heard of gharials, the demented black sheep of Crocodilia?

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The map shown above lumps in caimans with crocodiles because the reference map we used was for the order Crocodilia (which includes crocodiles, caimans, gharials and alligators).

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If you are one of the ~1% of my readers that knew that much about alligators, I congratulate you on your knowledge of Crocodilia.

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Fossil crocodilians from Colombia and the Cenozoic history of the Crocodilia in South America.

Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006

Fossil crocodilians from Colombia and the Cenozoic history of the Crocodilia in South America.

Even more recently extinct, island dwelling crocodilians Darren Naish 2006

Even among the ‘Reptilia’ — the class which exhibits the largest proportion of entirely extinct forms of any one type, — that of the ‘Crocodilia’, has persisted from at least the commencement of the Mesozoic epoch up to the present time with so much constancy, that the amount of change which it exhibits may fairly, in relation to the time which has elapsed, be called insignificant.

Essays 2007

Again, the more ancient Crocodilia and Lacertilia have vertebrae with the articular facets of their centra flattened or biconcave, while the modern members of the same group have them procoelous.

Essays 2007

Crocodilia, is represented, at the early part of the Mesozoic epoch, by species identical in the essential characters of their organization with those now living, and differing from the latter only in such matters as the form of the articular facets of the vertebral centra, in the extent to which the nasal passages are separated from the cavity of the mouth by bone, and in the proportions of the limbs.

Essays 2007

"On Stagonolepis Robertsoni, and on the Evolution of the Crocodilia"

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896

The order Labyrinthodonta recalls to mind, as as has been said earlier, the Crocodilia amongst reptiles, of which they may be deemed as the prophetic precursors, so to speak, though certainly not the direct ancestors.

The Common Frog 1874