Jacarea

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Jacarea
Temporal range: PaleocenePresent, 66–0  Ma
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Yacare caiman, Caiman yacare
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauromorpha
Clade: Archosauriformes
Order: Crocodilia
Family: Alligatoridae
Subfamily: Caimaninae
Clade: Jacarea
Norell, 1988
Genera

Jacarea is a clade of caimans within the subfamily Caimaninae. Jacarea was first named by Norell in 1988 to include the extant species within the genera Caiman and Melanosuchus , while excluding the dwarf caiman genus Paleosuchus . [1] In 1999, Brochu formally cladistically defined Jacarea as the last common ancestor of Caiman latirosris (Broad-snouted caiman), Caiman crocodilus (Spectacled caiman), Caiman yacare (Yacare caiman), Melanosuchus niger (Black caiman), and all its descendants. [1] Molecular DNA phylogenetic studies recover Paleosuchus as outside of Jacarea, although morphological studies are inconsistent. [1]

The cladogram below shows the results of the strict consensus phylogenetic analysis of the 2020 Cicade et al. study: [2]

Caimaninae

Culebrasuchus mesoamericanus

Gnatusuchus pebasensis

References

  1. 1 2 3 Rio, Jonathan P.; Mannion, Philip D. (6 September 2021). "Phylogenetic analysis of a new morphological dataset elucidates the evolutionary history of Crocodylia and resolves the long-standing gharial problem". PeerJ . 9: e12094. doi: 10.7717/peerj.12094 . PMC   8428266 . PMID   34567843.
  2. Cicade, G.M.; Fortier, D.; Hsiou, A.S. (2020). "Taxonomic and phylogenetic review of Necrosuchus ionensis (Alligatoroidea: Caimaninae) and the early evolution and radiation of caimanines". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 189 (2): 657–669. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz051 .