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]
| 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 |
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References
edit- ^ 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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