Bencao gangmu
As noted the "Compendium of Materia Medica" identifies "jiao" with Sanskrit , i.e., "kumbhīra" which denotes a long-snouted crocodylid. The 19th century herpetologist Albert-Auguste Fauvel concurred, stating that "jiaolong" referred to a crocodile or gavial clade of animals (:8).