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NANOGOMPHODON
(nan-o-gom-foe-don)
meaning: "dwarf peg tooth"
Named By: J. A. Hopson & H.inD. Sues in 2006
Time Period: Middle Triassic
Location: Germany - Erfurt Formation
Size: Unavailable
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Teeth
Classification: | Chordata | Synapsida | Therapsida | Cynodontia | Cynognathia | Gomphodontia | Traversodontidae |
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Nanogomphodon is an extinct genus of synapsid which existed in Germany during the Middle Triassic period.

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-Wurttemberg, Germany.

The name comes from Greek for "dwarf peg tooth"; from nanos (nanos, 'dwarf'), gomphos (gomphos, 'peg' or 'nail'), and odous (odous, 'tooth').

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