Betasuchus
| Betasuchus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | †Neoceratosauria |
| Superfamily: | †Abelisauroidea |
| Family: | †Abelisauridae |
| Genus: | †Betasuchus von Huene, 1932 |
| Species: | †B. bredai
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| Binomial name | |
| †Betasuchus bredai (Seeley, 1883 [originally Megalosaurus])
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Betasuchus is a genus of probable abelisaurid theropod dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous Period. Betasuchus is, besides Orthomerus, the only dinosaur genus named from remains found in the Netherlands and the only non-avian theropod found in the Maastrichtian Beds.