New Fossil Provides Clarity to The History of Alligatoridae
Published:20 Jan.2021 Source:Virginia Tech
Families are complicated. For members of the Alligatoridae family, which includes living caimans and alligators -- this is especially true. They are closely related, but because of their similarity, their identification can even stump paleontologists.
But after the recent discovery of a partial skull, the caimans of years past may provide some clarity into the complex, and incomplete, history of its relatives and their movements across time and space.