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on Richard Owen's original name for the group. Heinz Wermuth chose "Crocodylia" as the proper name, basing it on the type genus Crocodylus (Laurenti, 1768). Dundee, in a revision of many reptilian and amphibian names, argued strongly for "Crocodylia". Following the advent of cladistics and phylogenetic nomenclature, a more-solid justification

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