| Albertochampsa Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
| Clade: | Archosauriformes |
| Order: | Crocodilia |
| Family: | Alligatoridae |
| Genus: | †Albertochampsa Erickson, 1972 |
| Type species | |
| †Albertochampsa langstoni Erickson, 1972
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Albertochampsa is an extinct genus of alligatorid (possibly a stem-caiman[1] or a basal alligatorine[2]) from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta. It was named in 1972 by Bruce Erickson, and the type species is A. langstoni.[3] It is known from a skull from the Campanian-age Dinosaur Park Formation, where it was rare; Leidyosuchus is the most commonly found crocodilian at the Park. The skull of Albertochampsa was only about 21 cm long (8.3 in).[4]
- ^ Paula Bona; Martín D. Ezcurra; Francisco Barrios; María V. Fernandez Blanco (2018). "A new Palaeocene crocodylian from southern Argentina sheds light on the early history of caimanines". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 285 (1885): 20180843. doi:10.1098/rspb.2018.0843. PMC 6125902. PMID 30135152.
- ^ Walter J, Darlim G, Massonne T, Aase A, Frey E, Rabi M (2022). "On the origin of Caimaninae: insights from new fossils of Tsoabichi greenriverensis and a review of the evidence". Historical Biology. 34 (4): 580–595. doi:10.1080/08912963.2021.1938563. S2CID 238723638.
- ^ Erickson, Bruce R. (1972). "Albertochampsa langstoni, gen. et sp. nov. A new Alligator from the Cretaceous of Alberta". Scientific Publications of the Science Museum of Minnesota. new series. 2 (1): 1–13.
- ^ Wu, Xiao-Chun (2005). "Crocodylians". In Currie, Phillip J.; Koppelhus, Eva (eds.). Dinosaur Provincial Park: A Spectacular Ancient Ecosystem Revealed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. 277–291. ISBN 0-253-34595-2.