Let's talk about the history of the evolution of Crocodylia, the group of current crocodilians. In this video I cover the branch of alligators and caimans. New Pirula t-shirts: https://bit.ly/PirullaNaDoppel Buy 4 Pay for 3: Add 4 t-shirts to the cart and the discount will appear automatically. Buying 250+, shipping and the poster will also appear. All cumulative promotions :D Become a member: / pirulla25 My Twitter: / pirulla25 My fanpage: / canaldopirula My insta: @pirulla25 MY BOOK: amzn.to/2EqDprX Bone Collectors Channel: / @colecionadoresdeossos Lucy's Channel (MakeScienceBR): / @makesciencebr List of Crocodylia species with general information and areas of occurrence (in the case of this video the genera Alligator, Paleosuchus, Caiman and Melanosuchus): http://www.iucncsg.org/pages/Crocodil... About crocodiles in time and lifestyle: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159... Borealosuchus: https://sci-hub.do/https://www.tandfo... Planocraniidae: https://sci-hub.do/10.1017/s175569101... Leydiosuchus: https://sci-hub.do/https://www.tandfo... Deinosuchus: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/... https://peerj.com/articles/11302.pdf Diplocynodon: https://sci-hub.do/10.1017/s001675680... Ceratosuchus: https://sci-hub.do/https://www.jstor.... Allognatosuchidae: https://sci-hub.do/https://www.tandfo... Alligator sinensis fossils: https://sci-hub.do/https://www.scienc... https://sci-hub.do/https://www.scienc... Chinatichampsus, most primitive caimanine (as of the day of recording): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... Eocaiman (oldest caimanines): https://sci-hub.do/https://onlinelibr... Globidentosuchus: https://ri.conicet.gov.ar/bitstream/h... https://sci-hub.do/10.1017/jpa.2016.37 Gnatusuchus: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... About the Amazon basin during the Miocene, which allowed the emergence of a fauna of giant animals: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... Purussaurus and Acresuchus: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... Mourasuchus: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... https://peerj.com/articles/3056/ https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... Article about the Pantanal caiman being a subspecies of tinga caiman: https://sci-hub.do/https://www.tandfo... About the American alligator (Alligator mississipiensis): http://www.iucncsg.org/365_docs/attac... About the Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis): http://www.iucncsg.org/365_docs/attac... About the crowned caiman (Paleosuchus trigonatus): https://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/b... About the dwarf caiman (Paleosuchus palpebrosus): https://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/b... About the Pantanal caiman (Caiman yacare): https://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/b... About the spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus): http://www.iucncsg.org/365_docs/attac... About the broad-snouted caiman (Caiman latirostris): https://www.researchgate.net/profile/... About the black caiman [Melanosuchus (Caiman?) niger]: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/...