Eoalligator

Eoalligator is an extinct genus of alligatoroid crocodilian known from fragmentary remains that have been recovered from Late Cretaceous to Paleocene sediments of China. Fossils of the type and only species, Eoalligator chunyii, were first discovered in 1964 and described alongside the bones of Asiatosuchus nanlingensis. While one 2016 study eventually suggested that the two might in fact represent the same animal, more recent work has been published arguing that the two are in fact different. At one point a second species was also named, but has since placed in its own genus, Protoalligator. The relationship between Eoalligator and other crocodilians has repeatedly shifted: it was initially interpreted as an alligatorine, then for some time as a type of crocodyloid before being placed in the clade Orientalosuchina, a group of crocodilians with disputed affinities endemic to Asia during the Cretaceous and Paleogene.