Tagarosuchus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of reptiles}}

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{{Taxobox

| name = Tagarosuchus

| fossil_range = Early Cretaceous

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Chordata

| classis = Reptilia

| infraclassis = Archosauromorpha

| superordo = Crocodylomorpha

| unranked_familia = Crocodyliformes

| genus = Tagarosuchus

| genus_authority = Alifanov et al., 1999

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• 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.{{cite journal |last=Fiorelli |first=L.E. |author2=Calvo, J.O. |year=2007 |title=The first "protosuchian" (Archosauria: Crocodyliformes) from the Cretaceous (Santonian) of Gondwana |journal=Arquivos do Museu Nacional |volume=65 |issue=4 |pages=417–459 |url=http://www.museunacional.ufrj.br/CP/Arquivos/Arq652007/Arq654/dfiorelli.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927152657/http://www.museunacional.ufrj.br/CP/Arquivos/Arq652007/Arq654/dfiorelli.pdf |archive-date=2011-09-27 }} Tagarosuchus was named in 1999, with the type species being T. kulemzini.{{cite journal |last=Alifanov |first=V.R. |author2=Efimov, M.B. |author3=Novikov, I.V. |author4= Morales, M. |year=1999 |title=A new Psittacosaurian complex of tetrapods from the Lower Cretaceous Shestakovo Locality (Southern Siberia) |journal=Doklady Earth Sciences |volume=369 |pages=1228–1230}} Remains have been recovered from the Aptian-Albian Ilek Formation.