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{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Caimans
| fossil_range = {{fossilrange/linked|Paleocene|Present|refs=<ref name=Walter2022/>}}<small>Possible [[Maastrichtian]] origin if [[Late Cretaceous]] taxa are included<ref name="Rio2021">{{cite journal |last1=Rio |first1=Jonathan P. |last2=Mannion |first2=Philip D. |date=6 September 2021 |title=Phylogenetic analysis of a new morphological dataset elucidates the evolutionary history of Crocodylia and resolves the long-standing gharial problem |journal=[[PeerJ]] |volume=9 |pages=e12094 |doi=10.7717/peerj.12094 |pmid=34567843 |pmc=8428266 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
| taxon = Caimaninae
| image = Caiman_yacare.jpg
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The [[Late Cretaceous]] taxa ''[[Stangerochampsa]]'', ''[[Brachychampsa]]'' and ''[[Albertochampsa]]'' have been previously referred to as stem-group caimans,<ref name="Bona2018"/><ref name="Rio2021"/> but Walter et al. (2022) recovered them as the basal mostbasalmost alligatorines[[Alligatorinae|alligatorine]]s based on phylogenetic analysis and claimed that the earliest definitive stem-group caimans are known from the [[Early Paleocene|earliest Paleocene]].<ref name=Walter2022>{{cite journal| vauthors = Walter J, Darlim G, Massonne T, Aase A, Frey E, Rabi M |year=2022 |title=On the origin of Caimaninae: insights from new fossils of ''Tsoabichi greenriverensis'' and a review of the evidence |journal=Historical Biology |volume=34 |issue=4 |pages=580–595 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2021.1938563 |s2cid=238723638 }}</ref>
 
== Taxonomy ==