Alligatorinae

Alligatorinae
Temporal range: Paleocene-Holocene,[1] 60–0 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: Crocodylomorpha
Order: Crocodilia
Family: Alligatoridae
Subfamily: Alligatorinae
Gray, 1844
Genera

1 extant. 9 fossil. See text.

Alligatorinae is one of two subfamilies of the family Alligatoridae. There are ten known genera in this subfamily, but only one is extant.

Taxonomy


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