Aegyptosuchus

Aegyptosuchus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian
Aegyptosuchus (A) compared with Aegisuchus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: Crocodylomorpha
Family: †Aegyptosuchidae
Genus: †Aegyptosuchus
Stromer, 1933
Type species
†Aegyptosuchus peyeri
Stromer, 1933

Aegyptosuchus ("Egyptian crocodile") is an extinct genus of aegyptosuchid eusuchian crocodyliform. This taxon was coined by Kuhn (1936) as a monotypic family-level taxon redundant with the Cretaceous genus Aegyptosuchus. Carroll (1988) classified the genus in the family Stomatosuchidae. Only one species is descript, Aegyptosuchus peyeri.

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