| Alligator luicus Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Crocodilia |
| Family: | Alligatoridae |
| Genus: | Alligator |
| Species: | †A. luicus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Alligator luicus | |
Alligator luicus is an extinct species of alligator that lived in what is now Shandong, China during the Middle Miocene.1
History
A nearly complete alligator skull was discovered in the Shanwang Formation in 1984, and described as A. luicus in 1987 by Jinling Li and Baozhong Wang.1
Description
The skull appears to belong to a juvenile individual, as it resembles juveniles of the related Chinese alligator (A. sinensis).1 However, the snout, which was measured at 50 mm (2.0 in) in length, is wider than it is long in A. luicus as opposed to what is seen in an A. sinensis individual of the same size.1
References
References
- Li, Jinling; Wang, Baozhong (1987). "A new species of Alligator from Shanwang, Shandong" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica (in Chinese and English). 25 (3): 199–207.
- Massonne, Tobias; Vasilyan, Davit; Rabi, Márton; Böhme, Madelaine (5 November 2019). "A new alligatoroid from the Eocene of Vietnam highlights an extinct Asian clade independent from extant Alligator sinensis". PeerJ. 7 e7562. doi:10.7717/peerj.7562. eISSN 2167-8359. PMC 6839522. PMID 31720094. S2CID 207937765.