Stratiotosuchus
| Stratiotosuchus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Skeletal reconstruction and size comparison with a 175 cm tall human | |
| Skull diagram | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | †Notosuchia |
| Family: | †Baurusuchidae |
| Subfamily: | †Baurusuchinae |
| Genus: | †Stratiotosuchus Campos et al., 2001 |
| Type species | |
| †Stratiotosuchus maxhechti Campos et al., 2001
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Stratiotosuchus (from Greek, στρατιώτης (stratiōtēs, "soldier") and σοῦχος (soûchos, "crocodile")) is an extinct genus of baurusuchid mesoeucrocodylian from the Adamantina Formation in Brazil. It lived during the Late Cretaceous. The first fossils were found in the 1980s, and the type species Stratiotosuchus maxhechti was named in 2001. A hyperpredator, it and other baurusuchids may have filled niches occupied elsewhere by theropod dinosaurs.