| Nanogomphodon Temporal range: Middle Triassic |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Synapsida |
| Order: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | Cynodontia |
| (unranked): | †Cynognathia |
| Superfamily: | †Tritylodontoidea |
| Family: | †Traversodontidae |
| Genus: | †Nanogomphodon Hopson & Sues, 2006 |
| Type species | |
| †Nanogomphodon wildi Hopson & Sues, 2006 |
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| Species[1] | |
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†Nanogomphodon wildi |
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Nanogomphodon is an extinct genus of synapsid which existed in Germany during the Middle Triassic period.[2]
Nanogomphodon were small herbivorous traversodontid gomphodonts. The type species is Nanogomphodon wildi. They are only known from a few isolated teeth recovered in 2006 from the Erfurt Formation of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.[3]
The name comes from Greek for "dwarf peg tooth"; from νάνος (nanos, 'dwarf'), γόμφος (gómphos, 'peg' or 'nail'), and ὀδούς (odoús, 'tooth').
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