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Tzaganosuchus : ウィキペディア英語版 | Tzaganosuchus
Tzaganosuchus is an extinct genus of fossil crocodile from the Gobi Desert of southern/southeastern Mongolia. The type and only known species for this genus, ''Tzaganosuchus infansis'' was discovered during a joint paleontological expedition conducted by the Soviet Union and Mongolia.〔 That same expedition also described several other reptiles including several species of ''Shamosuchus'' and the archosauromorph genus ''Irenosaurus'' (originally named ''Tchoiria egloni'').〔 The prefix of the name ''"Tzaganosuchus"'' is a Mongol word derived from the locality where its fossils were first found: the Tsagan Khushu Quarry, which dates to the Paleogene epoch (Thanetian stratigraphic stage) and is part of the Naran-Bulak Formation.〔 The suffix ''suchus'' is a Latin word for crocodile.〔 ==Taxonomy== When it was described in 1983, along with a number of other reptile species, ''Tzaganosuchus'' was put in the subfamily Crocodylinae, which contains the genus ''Crocodylus'' and virtually all extant crocodile species and is the largest the three Crocodylidae subfamilies.〔〔〔
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