![[Paleontology • 2025] Expanded Phylogeny elucidates <i>Deinosuchus</i> relationships, Crocodylian Osmoregulation and Body-size Evolution](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
[] In a 2025 study, Jules D. Walter and colleagues argue that many character states previously thought to be diagnostic for alligatoroids were Actually much more widespread. In their analysis several genera traditionally viewed as basal alligatoroids,
Among them Deinosuchus, were found to not only fall outside of Alligatoroidea but to not even be '' true crocodilians '' ~~ Instead representing highly derived non-crocodilian eusuchians. { They are still within The neosuchian crocodylomorphs }
Deinosuchus was recovered as having split from the lineage leading up to Crocodilia after Leidyosuchus but before the terrestrial Planocraniidae. []
