| Nominosuchus Temporal range:
Late Jurassic
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
| Family: | † Shartegosuchidae |
| Genus: | †
Nominosuchus Efimov et al., 1996 |
| Species | |
Nominosuchus is a genus of protosuchian- grade crocodyliform. It is known from several specimens discovered in ancient lake deposits of the Tithonian-age Upper Jurassic Tsagaantsav Formation, southwestern Mongolia. The type specimen is PIN 4174/4, a partial skull. Nominosuchus was not large; its skull length is estimated at 60 millimetres (2.4 in). It was similar to Shartegosuchus, and is assigned to the same family ( Shartegosuchidae). Nominosuchus was described in 1996 by Mikhail Efimov, and the type species is N. matutinus. [2]
References
- ^ Fiorelli, L.E.; Juárez Valiera, R.D.; Salinas, G.C. (2006). "Relaciones filogenéticas de "Shartegosuchidae" Efimov (Crocodyliformes: Mesoeucrocodylia) del Jurásico y Cretácico de Asia Central" (PDF). Congreso Argentino de Paleontología y Biostratigrafía. Vol. 9. Córdoba: Resúmenes. p. 83. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-09.
- ^ Storrs, Glenn W.; Efimov, Mikhail B. (2000). "Mesozoic crocodyliforms of north-central Eurasia". In Benton, Michael J.; Shishkin, Mikhail A.; Unwin, David M.; Kurochkin, Evgenii N. (eds.). The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 402–419. ISBN 0-521-55476-4.
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