Tchoiria

Tchoiria
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous (Aptian), 125–99.6 Ma
T. klauseni skeleton at Dinosaurios del desierto de Gobi exhibition in Chile
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: †Choristodera
Suborder: †Neochoristodera
Genus: †Tchoiria
Efimov, 1975
Species
  • †T. namsari Efimov, 1975 (type)
  • †T. klauseni Ksepka et al., 2005

Tchoiria (/ˈtʃɔɪriə/) is a genus of neochoristoderan reptile from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia. The name Tchoiria comes from the city of Choir which is nearby to where the holotype was found.[1] Tchoiria is thought to have a similar diet to another neochoristoderan reptile, Champsosaurus, due to morphology of the skull. It would hunt in freshwater environments, like the living gharials, where it would prey on many different types of fish and turtles.[2][3]

  1. ^ Efimov, M.B. (1975). "Khampsozavrid iz Nizhnego Mela Mongolii". Iskopaemaya Fauna I Flora Mongolii. Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya, Trudy. 2: 84–93.
  2. ^ Evans, Susan E.; Hecht, Max K. (1993), Hecht, Max K.; MacIntyre, Ross J.; Clegg, Michael T. (eds.), "A History of an Extinct Reptilian Clade, the Choristodera: Longevity, Lazarus-Taxa, and the Fossil Record", Evolutionary Biology, Boston, MA: Springer US, pp. 323–338, doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-2878-4_8, ISBN 978-1-4615-2878-4, retrieved 2023-03-02
  3. ^ Masaki, Matsukawa. Early Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems in East Asia based on food-web and energy-flow models. OCLC 1039765867.