| Aplestosuchus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
| Clade: | †Notosuchia |
| Clade: | †Sebecosuchia |
| Family: | †Baurusuchidae |
| Subfamily: | †Baurusuchinae |
| Genus: | †Aplestosuchus Godoy et al., 2014 |
| Type species | |
| †Aplestosuchus sordidus Godoy et al., 2014
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Aplestosuchus is an extinct genus of baurusuchid mesoeucrocodylian known from the Late Cretaceous Adamantina Formation of São Paulo, southern Brazil. It contains a single species, Aplestosuchus sordidus. A. sordidus is represented by a single articulated and nearly complete skeleton, preserving the remains of an unidentified sphagesaurid crocodyliform in its abdominal cavity. The specimen represents direct evidence of predation between different taxa of crocodyliforms in the fossil record.[1]
- ^ Godoy, P. L.; Montefeltro, F. C.; Norell, M. A.; Langer, M. C. (2014). "An Additional Baurusuchid from the Cretaceous of Brazil with Evidence of Interspecific Predation among Crocodyliformes". PLOS ONE. 9 (5): e97138. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...997138G. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0097138. PMC 4014547. PMID 24809508.