Gobiosuchus
| Gobiosuchus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Specimen encased in armour | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Family: | †Gobiosuchidae |
| Genus: | †Gobiosuchus Osmólska, 1972 |
| Species: | †G. kielanae
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| Binomial name | |
| †Gobiosuchus kielanae Osmólska, 1972
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Gobiosuchus ("Gobi [desert] crocodile") is an extinct genus of crocodyliform described in 1972 by Polish palaeontologist Halszka Osmólska. It hails from the Late Cretaceous (Early Campanian) of Bayn Dzak (Djadokhta Formation), in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. The type species is Gobiosuchus kielanae, classified as a member of the family Gobiosuchidae.