''Arganarhinus'' (meaning "Argana ( Morocco) snout") is an

extinct Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...

genus of phytosaur known from the late Triassic period (Middle Carnian stage) of

Argana Basin Argana is a small town and rural commune in Taroudant Province of the Souss-Massa-Drâa region of Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks ...

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 ''Paleorhinus'' (Greek: ''"Old Nose"'') is an extinct genus of widespread basal (phylogenetics), basal phytosaur known from the Late Triassic (late Carnian stage). The genus was named in 1904 based on the type species ''Paleorhinus bransoni'', wh ...

'' in 1977b by Jean Michel DutuitDutuit, J. M. (1977b) Description of the skull of ''

Angistorhinus ''Angistorhinus'' (meaning "narrow snout" or "hook snout") is an extinct genus of phytosaur known from the Late Triassic period of Texas and Wyoming, United States. It was first named by Mehl in 1913 and the type species is ''Angistorhinus grand ...

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 and it was named as a separate genus by Long and Murry in

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. The type species is the original ''Paleorhinus magnoculus'' and the ''

combinatio nova ''Combinatio nova'', abbreviated ''comb. nov.'' (sometimes ''n. comb.''), is Latin for "new combination". It is used in taxonomic biology literature when a new name is introduced based on a pre-existing name. The term should not to be confused wi ...

'' is ''Arganarhinus magnoculus''. Its closest relative was ''

''.

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Phytosaurs Late Triassic reptiles of Africa Fossil taxa described in 1995 Prehistoric reptile genera {{triassic-reptile-stub