| Arganarhinus Temporal range: Late Triassic, 221 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
| Clade: | Archosauriformes |
| Order: | †Phytosauria |
| Family: | †Parasuchidae |
| Genus: | †Arganarhinus Long & Murry, 1995 |
| Type species | |
| †Arganarhinus magnoculus (Dutuit, 1977b ) | |
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Arganarhinus (meaning "Argana (Morocco) snout") is an extinct genus of phytosaur known from the late Triassic period (Middle Carnian stage) of Argana Basin in Morocco. It is known from a skull which is housed at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. It was first named as a species of Paleorhinus in 1977b by Jean Michel Dutuit and it was named as a separate genus by Long and Murry in 1995. The type species is the original Paleorhinus magnoculus and the combinatio nova is Arganarhinus magnoculus. Its closest relative was Paleorhinus.
References
- Dutuit, J. M. (1977b) Description of the skull of Angistorhinus talainti n. sp: a new phytosaur from the Triassic of the Moroccan Atlas. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle: Sciences de la Terre 3(66):297-337
- Long, R. A. & Murry, P. A. (1995). "Late Triassic (Carnian and Norian) tetrapods from the southwestern United States". Bulletin of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. 4: 1–254.
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