Crocodylidae

A crocodile (family Crocodylidae) or true crocodile is a large, semiaquatic reptile that lives throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. The term "crocodile" is sometimes used more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia, which includes the alligators and caimans (both members of the family Alligatoridae), the gharial and false gharial (both members of the family Gavialidae) as well as other extinct taxa. This article will use "crocodile" or "true crocodile" to refer only to the species taxonomically included in the Crocodylidae family, extant or

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Crocodylus is a genus of true crocodiles in the family Crocodylidae.

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species of reptile

species of reptile

species of reptile

species of reptile

species of reptile

species of reptile

species of crocodile

species of slender-snouted crocodile

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species of reptile

extinct species of crocodile from pleistocene Tanzania

species of reptile

species of slender-snouted crocodile

Mecistops is a genus of crocodiles, the slender-snouted crocodiles, native to sub-Saharan Africa.

species of crocodile

extinct species of crocodile from pliocene and pleistocene Kenia

Osteolaemus (from Ancient Greek όστεον (ósteon), meaning "bone", and λαιμός (laimós), meaning "throat") is a genus of crocodiles. They are small, secretive crocodiles that occur in wetlands of West and Middle Africa. They are commonly known as the African dwarf crocodiles. Unlike other crocodiles, Osteolaemus are strictly nocturnal.

Voay is an extinct genus of crocodile from Madagascar that lived during the Late Pleistocene to Holocene, containing only one species, V. robustus. Numerous subfossils have been found, including complete skulls, noted for their distinctive pair of horns on the posterior, as well as vertebrae and osteoderms from such places as Ambolisatra and Antsirabe. The genus is thought to have become extinct relatively recently. It has been suggested to have disappeared in the extinction event that wiped out much of the endemic megafauna on Madagascar, such as the elephant bird and Malagasy hippo, followin

Euthecodon is an extinct genus of long-snouted crocodile. It was common throughout much of Africa during the Neogene, with fossils being especially common in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Libya. Although superficially resembling that of gharials, the long snout was a trait developed independently from that of other crocodilians and suggests a diet of primarily fish. Euthecodon coexisted with a wide range of other crocodiles in the areas it inhabited before eventually going extinct during the Pleistocene.

extinct species of corocilde from northern South America during the Pliocene

species of crocodile

Crocodylinae is a subfamily of true crocodiles within the family Crocodylidae, and is the sister taxon to Osteolaeminae (dwarf crocodiles and slender-snouted crocodiles).

Rimasuchus is an extinct genus of large crocodile from the early Miocene of Egypt and possibly Libya. The genus contains a single species, Rimasuchus lloydi. It was previously thought to be a species of Crocodylus, but is now thought to be more closely related to the modern African dwarf crocodiles (Osteolaemus).

extinct species of crocodile from Miocene and Pliocene Africa

skin of any species of crocodile

extract of fatty tissues of crocodiles

Aldabrachampsus is an extinct genus of small horned crocodile known from fragmentary remains. It lived during the Pleistocene on Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles in the western Indian Ocean. The name Aldabrachampsus dilophus means "Two-crested crocodile from Aldabra". It was a small animal, reaching a length of , comparable in size to the smallest extant crocodilians.

extinct species of crocodile from Miocene and Pliocene South Asia