West African dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis)
Central African slender-snouted crocodile (Mecistops leptorhynchus)
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Clade:
Archosauromorpha
Clade:
Archosauriformes
Order:
Crocodilia
Family:
Crocodylidae
Subfamily:
Osteolaeminae Brochu, 2003
Genera
Osteolaemus
Mecistops?
†Aldabrachampsus?
†Brochuchus
†Euthecodon
†Kinyang[1]
†Rimasuchus
Osteolaeminae is a subfamily of true crocodiles within the family Crocodylidae containing the dwarf crocodiles and slender-snouted crocodiles, and is the sister taxon to Crocodylinae.
^Brochu, Christopher A.; de Celis, Ane; Adams, Amanda J.; Drumheller, Stephanie K.; Nestler, Jennifer H.; Benefit, Brenda R.; Grossman, Aryeh; Kirera, Francis; Lehmann, Thomas; Liutkus-Pierce, Cynthia; Manthi, Fredrick K.; McCrossin, Monte L.; McNulty, Kieran P.; Nyaboke Juma, Rose (2022). "Giant dwarf crocodiles from the Miocene of Kenya and crocodylid faunal dynamics in the late Cenozoic of East Africa". The Anatomical Record. 305 (10): 2729–2765. doi:10.1002/ar.25005. ISSN 1932-8486. PMC 9541231. PMID 35674271.
Osteolaeminae is a subfamily of true crocodiles within the family Crocodylidae containing the dwarf crocodiles and slender-snouted crocodiles, and is...
crocodiles within the family Crocodylidae, and is the sister taxon to Osteolaeminae (dwarf crocodiles and slender-snouted crocodiles). Crocodylinae was...
subfamilies: Crocodylinae and Osteolaeminae. Crocodylinae contains 13-14 living species, as well as 6 extinct species. Osteolaeminae was named by Christopher...
relationships within Crocodylidae, including the subfamilies Crocodylinae and Osteolaeminae. The below cladogram shows the results of the latest study: The dwarf...
relationships within Crocodylidae, including the subfamilies Crocodylinae and Osteolaeminae. The below cladogram shows the results of the latest study: Crocodylus...
related to Crocodylus than to Osteolaemus and the other members of Osteolaeminae, as shown in the cladogram below. The genus name Mecistops is most probably...
(something much more abrupt in gharials). Most current analyses place it in Osteolaeminae, a family consisting of the extant dwarf crocodile and the extinct Rimasuchus...
studies came to agree that it was much more closely related to the Osteolaeminae, which includes both species of extant dwarf crocodiles. Given this...
the Crocodylidae, falling just outside of the two extant subfamilies Osteolaeminae (dwarf and slender-snouted crocodiles) and Crocodylinae (true crocodiles)...
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