Tagarosuchus

Tagarosuchus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Infraclass:	Archosauromorpha
Superorder:	Crocodylomorpha
(unranked):	Crocodyliformes
Genus:	Tagarosuchus Alifanov et al., 1999
Species
T. kulemzini Alifanov et al., 1999 (type)

Tagarosuchus is an extinct genus of Early Cretaceous protosuchian-grade crocodyliform. Fossils of Tagarosuchus have been found from southern Siberia, including a nearly complete skull found near the village of Shestakovo in Kemerovo Oblast. ^[1] Tagarosuchus was named in 1999, with the type species being T. kulemzini. ^[2] Remains have been recovered from the Aptian-Albian Ilek Formation.

Paleoecology

A diverse vertebrate assemblage has been uncovered from the Shestakovo locality. Tagarosuchus would have coexisted with paramacellodid, scincomorphan, and xenosaurid lizards, the shartegosuchid crocodyliform Kyasuchus , the tritylodontid cynodont Xenocretosuchus , the triconodont mammal Gobiconodon , the ceratopsian dinosaur Psittacosaurus , troodontid theropod dinosaurs, and sauropods, all of which have been described from the locality in the past few decades. ^[3]

References

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1. Fiorelli, L.E.; Calvo, J.O. (2007). "The first "protosuchian" (Archosauria: Crocodyliformes) from the Cretaceous (Santonian) of Gondwana" (PDF). Arquivos do Museu Nacional. 65 (4): 417–459. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-27.
2. Alifanov, V.R.; Efimov, M.B.; Novikov, I.V.; Morales, M. (1999). "A new Psittacosaurian complex of tetrapods from the Lower Cretaceous Shestakovo Locality (Southern Siberia)". Doklady Earth Sciences. 369: 1228–1230.
3. Averianov, A.O.; Voronkevich, A.V.; Maschenko, E.N.; Leshchinskiy, S.V.; Fayngertz, A.V. (2002). "A sauropod foot from the Early Cretaceous of Western Siberia, Russia" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 47 (1): 117–124.