Cherminotus is an extinct genus of monitor lizard from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia.

More specimens were later found in the Djadokhta Formation in localities such as Ukhaa Tolgod.

[1] Cherminotus is small for a monitor lizard and has a longer snout than its closest relative, the living Earless monitor lizard.

Cherminotus is also very similar in appearance to Aiolosaurus, another monitor from the Cretaceous of Mongolia.

Other monitors and monitor ancestors have two holes in the lacrimal, making the presence of only one hole in Cherminotus a case of evolutionary reversal.