Ankylosuchus
| Ankylosuchus Temporal range: Late Triassic,
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | †Proterochampsia |
| Family: | †Doswelliidae |
| Genus: | †Ankylosuchus Lucas et al., 2013 |
| Type species | |
| †Ankylosuchus chinlegroupensis Lucas et al., 2013
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Ankylosuchus is an extinct doswelliid archosauromorph reptile that lived during the Late Triassic of Texas. Ankylosuchus is a monotypic genus and the type species is Ankylosuchus chinlegroupensis. It was relatively small animal only being around a meter in length not including the tail.
Ankylosuchus is similar to other doswelliids in having heavy armor consisting of thick bony plates called osteoderms that interlock tightly and are irregularly pitted. It differs from other doswelliids in that the pits on the osteoderms are deeper and some osteoderms are fused to those that lie laterally to them.