Nannosuchus

Nannosuchus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, Berriasian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Skull and close-up of teeth of holotype BMNH 48217
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Archosauria
Clade:	Pseudosuchia
Clade:	Crocodylomorpha
Clade:	Crocodyliformes
Family:	† Goniopholididae
Genus:	† Nannosuchus Salisbury, 2002
Type species
†Goniopholis gracilidens Owen, 1879

N. sp. fossil

Nannosuchus (meaning "dwarf crocodile") is an extinct genus of goniopholidid mesoeucrocodylian from the Berriasian Middle Purbeck Formation of England that was originally named as a species of Goniopholis . ^{[1] [2]} The type species, N. gracilidens, is based on the holotype BMNH 48217, scattered fragmentary remains that include parts of the skull and various other postcranial elements described in 1879. ^[3]

References

1. Marco Brandalise de Andrade; Richard Edmonds; Michael J. Benton; 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.
2. Owen, R. (1878). "Monograph on the Fossil Reptilia of the Wealden and Purbeck Formations". Palæontographical Society. 31: 1-19.
3. Owen, R. (1879). "On the Association of Dwarf Crocodiles (Nannosuchus and Theriosuchus pusillus, e.g.) with the Diminutive Mammals of the Purbeck Shales" (PDF). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. 35 (1–4): 148-155. doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1879.035.01-04.02. S2CID   129650812.