Caiman australis

Caiman australis; Temporal range: Late Miocene, 9.0–7.3 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Archosauromorpha
Clade:	Archosauriformes
Order:	Crocodilia
Family:	Alligatoridae
Subfamily:	Caimaninae
Clade:	Jacarea
Genus:	Caiman
Species:	†C. australis
Binomial name
	†Caiman australis; (Bravard, 1858)
Synonyms
	Crocodilus australis; Bravard, 1858; Alligator australis; (Bravard, 1858); Proalligator australis; (Bravard, 1858);

Caiman australis is an extinct species of caiman described in 1858 on the basis of a left maxilla that was collected from the Upper Miocene age Ituzaingó Formation of Entre Rios, Argentina.^[1]^[2]

^ Bravard, A. (1858). Monografıa de los terrenos marinos terciarios del Paraná. Diario oficial del Gobierno: El Nacional Argentino.[Reprinted as Burmeister, G. 1883.].
^ Bona, P., & Barrios, F. (2015). The Alligatoroidea of Argentina: an update of its fossil record. Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina, 51.