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Nominosuchus

Osteichthyes - Shartegosuchidae

Taxonomy

Nominosuchus was named by Efimov (1996). It is not extant. Its type is Nominosuchus matutinus.

It was assigned to Protosuchia by Efimov (1996); and to Shartegosuchidae by Storrs and Efimov (2000), Wings et al. (2010), Clark (2011), Buscalioni (2017), Dollman et al. (2018).

Species

N. arcanus, N. matutinus (type species)

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1996	Nominosuchus Efimov p. 307 fig. 3
2000	Nominosuchus Storrs and Efimov p. 403
2010	Nominosuchus Wings et al.
2011	Nominosuchus Clark
2017	Nominosuchus Buscalioni
2018	Nominosuchus Dollman et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
class	Osteichthyes
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
—	Pseudosuchia	(Zittel 1890)
—	Suchia	Krebs 1974
—	Paracrocodylomorpha
—	Loricata	(Merrem 1820)
—	Crocodylomorpha	()
—	Solidocrania
suborder	Crocodyliformes
—	Shartegosuchoidea
family	Shartegosuchidae	Efimov 1988
genus	Nominosuchus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Nominosuchus Efimov 1996

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†Nominosuchus arcanus Efimov and Abramov 2003

†Nominosuchus matutinus Efimov 1996

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialsubc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Diet:

carnivoresubo

Created:

2009-01-03 20:38:45

Modified:

2009-01-03 22:38:45

Source: subo = suborder, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum

References: Carroll 1988, Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Benton 1983

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Oxfordian to the top of the Tithonian or 157.90000 to 143.10000 Ma

Collections (3 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian	157.9 - 149.2	China (Xinjiang)	N. sp. (47056)
Tithonian	149.2 - 143.1	Mongolia (Govi-Altay)	N. arcanus (179180) N. matutinus (179184)