Rimasuchus
| Rimasuchus Temporal range: Early Miocene
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Order: | Crocodilia |
| Superfamily: | Crocodyloidea |
| Family: | Crocodylidae |
| Subfamily: | Osteolaeminae |
| Genus: | †Rimasuchus Storrs, 2003 |
| Type species | |
| †Rimasuchus lloydi (Fourtau, 1918)
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Rimasuchus is an extinct genus of large crocodile from the early Miocene of Egypt and possibly Libya. The genus contains a single species, Rimasuchus lloydi. It was previously thought to be a species of Crocodylus, but is now thought to be more closely related to the modern African dwarf crocodiles (Osteolaemus).