| Scythosuchus Temporal range: Early Triassic
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Family: | †Rauisuchidae |
| Genus: | †Scythosuchus Sennikov, 1999 |
| Type species | |
| †Scythosuchus basileus Sennikov, 1999
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Scythosuchus is an extinct genus of rauisuchid. Remains have been found from Olenekian-age Lower Triassic beds in Russia, hence the name meaning 'Scythian crocodile'.[1] The type and only species is S. basileus, described in 1999. Scythosuchus was between 2 and 3 metres long, and relatively heavily built. It is known from a partial skull, much of the spine, a fragment of the humerus and most of the hind leg and foot.[2] It may have been the same animal as Tsylmosuchus donensis.[3]
- ^ Borsuk−Białynicka, M.; Sennikov, A.G. (2009). "Archosauriform postcranial remains from the Early Triassic karst deposits of southern Poland". Palaeontologica Polonica. 65: 283–328.
- ^ Sennikov, A.G. (1999). "The evolution of the postcranial skeleton in archosaurs in connection with new finds of the Rauisuchidae in the Early Triassic of Russia". Paleontological Journal. 1999 (6): 44–56.
- ^ Sennikov AG (2022). "On pseudosuchians Tsylmosuchus donensis and Scythosuchus basileus from the Early Triassic of Eastern Europe". Paleontological Journal. 56 (1): 91–96. Bibcode:2022PalJ...56...91S. doi:10.1134/S0031030121060113. S2CID 248132677.