17:4417:44, 20 June 2023diffhist+2
Brevirostres
Harshman et al. published the first phylogenetic definition for Longirostres, but the name was first used in the 19th century.
17:4317:43, 20 June 2023diffhist−63
Brevirostres
Strictly speaking, in the phylogenetic system, names can refer to the same clade without actually being synonymous.
20:0320:03, 4 March 2023diffhist+2
Fish and chips
minor change - as originally phrased, it implied that haddock, like perch and walleye, would be "locally lake-caught fish." Haddock is a marine fish not found in freshwater lakes.
17:1217:12, 27 February 2023diffhist+730
Thecachampsa
More than the usual basic modifications here. Arguments made by Weems regarding the three known species of Thecachampsa have not been accepted by those who have actually seen the material. I will add additional citations later today.
16:4416:44, 27 February 2023diffhist+2
Ashley Formation
Thecachampsa isn't necessarily in crown-group Gavialidae, but assuming the molecular trees are accurate, it's certainly a gavialoid.
01:0801:08, 23 December 2021diffhist−5,550
Alligatoridae
I have again deleted the Lee and Yates trees. You're welcome. The error rate in their morphological data is rather high (as documented, for example, in Cossette et al's paper describing Brochuchus parvidens, though that paper wasn't actually focused on alligatoroids). There are better and more reliable (and recent) sources available, e.g. recent papers by Bona et al., Cossette and Brochu, and others. I don't know how to generate trees for Wikipedia, so I'll leave it to someone else to do it.
22 December 2021
20:2120:21, 22 December 2021diffhist−128
Alligatoridae
The plural of "taxon" is "taxa," and Alligatoridae and Alligatoroidea are never synonymous by definition. If their properties are the same, they're redundant with each other. it's also not entirely true that Alligatoroidea is only used by paleontologists.
19:5819:58, 22 December 2021diffhist−78
Allognathosuchus
The photo used in this article may have been labelled "Allognthosuchus," but it is diagnostically a specimen of Alligator prenasalis.
19:3219:32, 16 December 2021diffhist+107
Wellnhopterus
I added some text qualifying it a bit, pointing out that it's an "interpretation." The qualifications are unneeded, but perhaps this renders it more acceptable?