| Heptasuchus Temporal range: Middle - Late Triassic,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Loricata |
| Genus: | †Heptasuchus Dawley et al., 1979 |
| Type species | |
| †Heptasuchus clarki Dawley et al., 1979
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Heptasuchus is an extinct genus of loricatan pseudosuchian known from the Middle or Late Triassic upper Chugwater Group of Wyoming, United States.[1] It contains a single species, Heptasuchus clarki, the first formally recognized "rauisuchian" or loricatan pseudosuchian from North America.[2]
- ^ Zawiskie, J.M.; Dawley, R.M.; Nesbitt, S.J. (2011). "The relationships and type locality of Heptasuchus clarki, Popo Agie Formation of the Chugwater Group (Middle to Upper Triassic), Southeastern Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming, USA". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (Supp. 1): 219. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.10635174. S2CID 220413632.
- ^ Dawley, R.M.; Zawiskie, J.M.; Cosgriff, J.W. (1979). "A rauisuchid thecodont from the Upper Triassic Popo Agie Formation of Wyoming". Journal of Paleontology. 53 (6): 1428–1431.