| Alligator hailensis Temporal range: Early Pleistocene-
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
| Clade: | Archosauriformes |
| Order: | Crocodilia |
| Family: | Alligatoridae |
| Genus: | Alligator |
| Species: | †A. hailensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Alligator hailensis Stout, 2020
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Alligator hailensis, or Haile alligator, is a large, extinct species of Alligator known from the early Pleistocene of Florida. It is named after the town of Haile, Florida, where it was found. Its age and skeletal morphology is intermediate between the geologically older Alligator mefferdi and the modern American alligator, making it a transitional fossil.[1][2]
- ^ Stout, J.B. (2020). "New early Pleistocene Alligator (Eusuchia: Crocodylia) from Florida bridges a Gap in Alligator evolution". Zootaxa. 4868 (1): 41โ60. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4868.1.3. PMID 33311408. S2CID 226337860.
- ^ PBDB. "Alligator Hailensis Stout 2020 (Alligator)." PBDB, paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=427868