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1 Evolution. 2 Phylogeny. 3 ... is a large reptile in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae of the ... Alligators first appeared during the late Eocene ...
Alligatorinae is cladistically defined as Alligator mississippiensis (the American alligator) and all species closer to it than to Caiman crocodylus (the spectacled caiman). [ 8 ] [ 9 ] This is a stem-based definition for Alligatorinae, and means that it includes more basal extinct alligator ancestors that are more closely related to living ...
The American alligator was first classified in 1801 by French zoologist François Marie Daudin as Crocodilus mississipiensis.In 1807, Georges Cuvier created the genus Alligator for it, [14] based on the English common name alligator (derived from Spanish word el lagarto, "the lizard").
Mystic, the first leucistic alligator born to humans, has a $50,000 new habitat at Gatorland built specifically for her and her brother Mayhem, the wildlife park said. Photo from Gatorland
The Chinese alligator split from the American alligator about 33 million years ago [8] and likely descended from a lineage that crossed the Bering land bridge during the Neogene. The modern American alligator is well represented in the fossil record of the Pleistocene. [9] The alligator's full mitochondrial genome was sequenced in the 1990s. [10]
LAPD First Assistant Chief Jim McDonnell holds up a photo of Reggie the Alligator at an August 2005 news conference. (Kevork Djansezian / Associated Press) “We have animals at our park that we ...
An alligator nest at Everglades National Park, Florida, United States Alligator olseni forelimb Alligator prenasalis fossil. The superfamily Alligatoroidea is thought to have split from the crocodile-gharial lineage in the late Cretaceous, about 80 million years ago, but possibly as early as 100 million years ago based on molecular phylogenetics.
Four eggs successfully hatched 81 days later.Footage released by the park shows the four alligator hatchlings enjoying their first ever bath. Credit: Wild Florida via Storyful.