FIGURE 12 in New early Pleistocene Alligator (Eusuchia: Crocodylia) from Florida bridges a gap in Alligator evolution

FIGURE 12. Strict consensus of 25,106 most parsimonious cladograms of Alligatoridae with Bernissartia fagesii, Crocodylus niloticus, and Leidyosuchus canadensis, as outgroups (A. and B.). (C.) Plurality consensus (majority rule allowing less than 50 percent recovery) offers no clade support but does reflect the biostratigraphic record, illustrating the intermediate nature of Alligator hailensis in time and morphology (numbers represent percent clade recovery of most parsimonious cladograms).