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| Mounted skeleton of Saurosuchus galilei in Mori Art Museum Gallery, Japan | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Paracrocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | Loricata |
| Family: | †Prestosuchidae |
| Genus: | †Saurosuchus Reig, 1959 |
| Species: | †S. galilei
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| Binomial name | |
| †Saurosuchus galilei Reig, 1959
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Saurosuchus (meaning "lizard crocodile") is an extinct genus of large loricatan pseudosuchian archosaurs that lived in South America during the Late Triassic period. It was a heavy, ground-dwelling, quadrupedal carnivore, likely being the apex predator in the Ischigualasto Formation.[1]
- ^ Reig, O. A. (1959). "Primeros datos descriptivos sobre nuevos arcosaurios del Triásico de Ischigualasto (San Juan, Argentina)". Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina. 13 (4): 257–270.