Tchoiria
| Tchoiria Temporal range: Early Cretaceous | |
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| Tchoiria klauseni holotype fossil | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Order: | Choristodera |
| Family: | Simoedosauridae |
| Genus: | Tchoiria Efimov, 1975 |
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Front view of T. klauseni holotype
Tchoiria is a genus of simoedosaurid choristodere, a type of crocodile-like aquatic reptile.[1] Fossils of this genus have been found in Early Cretaceous-age rocks in Mongolia. Four species have been named, but two have been given their own genera. The type species is T. namsari, based on PIN 3386/1, a partial skull and skeleton discovered in the Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Hühteeg Formation at Hüren Dukh, central Mongolia. Two other species were named from this locality, with both later being reassigned: T. egloni, now Irenosaurus egloni; and T. magnus, now Ikechosaurus magnus.[2] A fourth species, T. klauseni, was named from a partial skull and skeleton found in rocks of roughly the same age farther west in Mongolia.[1]
References
- 1 2 Ksepka, D. T.; K.-Q. Gao; Norell, M. A. (2005). "A new choristodere from the Cretaceous of Mongolia" (pdf). American Museum Novitates. 3468: 1–22. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2005)468<0001:ancftc>2.0.co;2.
- ↑ Efimov, Mikhail B.; Storrs, Glenn W. (2000). "Choristodera from the Lower Cretaceous of northern Asia". In Benton, Michael J.; Shishkin, Mikhail A.; Unwin, David M.; Kurochkin, Evgenii N. The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 390–401. ISBN 0-521-55476-4.
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