Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
4. living organisms (entities)
5. Eukaryota (domain)
6. Animalia (kingdom)
7. Chordata (phylum)
8. Vertebrata (subphylum)
9. Reptilia (class)

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms
4. living organisms
5. Eukaryota
6. Animalia
7. Chordata
8. Vertebrata
9. Reptilia
10. Diapsida
11. Archosauria

Narrower term/s

• Crocodylidae (family)
• Alligatoridae (family)[+]
  • Alligator (genus)

Anotations

Scope note:

Order of aquatic or amphibious reptiles with a robust body and tail, short sturdy limbs, a strong flattened and elongate skull with nostrils at tip of snout, and a well-developed secondary palate. Dating from the Paleocene to present, including three living families, eight genera, and 23 species of crocodiles, gavials, caimans, and alligators.