Junggarsuchus
Sign in to saveJunggarsuchus () is an extinct genus of sphenosuchian crocodylomorph from the Middle or Late Jurassic period of China. The type and only species is J. sloani. The generic name of Junggarsuchus comes from the Junggar Basin (the anglicization of Dzungar), where the fossil was found, and the Greek word "souchos" meaning crocodile. The specific name, "sloani" is in honor of C. Sloan, who is credited with finding the holotype.
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Junggarsuchus () is an extinct genus of sphenosuchian crocodylomorph from the Middle or Late Jurassic period of China. The type and only species is J. sloani. The generic name of Junggarsuchus comes from the Junggar Basin (the anglicization of Dzungar), where the fossil was found, and the Greek word "souchos" meaning crocodile. The specific name, "sloani" is in honor of C. Sloan, who is credited with finding the holotype.
==Discovery== left|thumb|Life reconstruction of Junggarsuchus with hypothetical osteoderms Junggarsuchus was found in the upper part of the Lower Member of the Shishugou Formation in Xinjiang, China at the Wucaiwan locality. The type and only specimen was described in 2004 by James Clark, Xu Xing, Catherine Forester, and Yuan Wang in Nature, but it did not receive a full osteological description until 2022 when Alexander Ruebenstahl, Michael Klein, and Yi Hongyu published a monograph along with two of the original describers James Clark and Xu Xing.