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n. - A reptile that resembles an alligator.

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  • Incidentally, have you heard of gharials, the demented black sheep of Crocodilia?
  • Fossil crocodilians from Colombia and the Cenozoic history of the Crocodilia in South America.
  • If you are one of the ~1% of my readers that knew that much about alligators, I congratulate you on your knowledge of Crocodilia.
  • The map shown above lumps in caimans with crocodiles because the reference map we used was for the order Crocodilia (which includes crocodiles, caimans, gharials and...
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