Nominosuchus

Nominosuchus Temporal range: Late Jurassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Superorder:	Crocodylomorpha
Suborder:	Protosuchia
Family:	Shartegosuchidae
Genus:	Nominosuchus Efimov et al., 1996
Species
N. matutinus Efimov et al., 1996 (type) N. arcanus Kurzanov et al., 2003[1]

Nominosuchus is a genus of protosuchian-grade crocodylomorph. 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

1. Fiorelli, L.E.; Juárez Valiera, R.D.; and 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. 9. Córdoba: Resúmenes. p. 83. Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors= (help)
2. 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. The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 402–419. ISBN 0-521-55476-4.