Thikarisuchus
| Thikarisuchus Temporal range: early Late Cretaceous,
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| Speculative life restoration of the head of Thikarisuchus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Family: | †Wannchampsidae |
| Genus: | †Thikarisuchus Allen et al., 2025 |
| Species: | †T. xenodentes
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| Binomial name | |
| †Thikarisuchus xenodentes Allen et al., 2025
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Thikarisuchus (meaning "sheath crocodile") is an extinct genus of neosuchian crocodyliforms known from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian age) Blackleaf Formation of Montana, United States. The genus contains a single species, Thikarisuchus xenodentes, known from a nearly complete skull and partial skeleton in addition to isolated cranial bones. Thikarisuchus is the second novel vertebrate named from this formation, after the burrowing thescelosaurid dinosaur Oryctodromeus.