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.

^ 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.
^ 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.