Nannosuchus

Nannosuchus
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
Skull and close-up of teeth of holotype BMNH 48217
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: Crocodylomorpha
Family: Goniopholididae
Genus: Nannosuchus
Owen, 1879
Type species
Nannosuchus gracilidens
Owen, 1879

Nannosuchus (meaning "dwarf crocodile") is an extinct genus of goniopholidid mesoeucrocodylian from the Berriasian of England.[1]

References

  1. Marco Brandalise de Andrade, Richard Edmonds, Michael J. Benton and Remmert Schouten (2011). "A new Berriasian species of Goniopholis (Mesoeucrocodylia, Neosuchia) from England, and a review of the genus". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163 (s1): S66–S108. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00709.x.


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