| Brachysuchus Temporal range: Late Triassic,
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| Skull of Brachysuchus megalodon in the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
| Clade: | Archosauriformes |
| Order: | †Phytosauria |
| Family: | †Parasuchidae |
| Genus: | †Brachysuchus Case, 1929 |
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| †Brachysuchus megalodon Case, 1929
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Brachysuchus (meaning "wide crocodile") is an extinct genus of phytosaur known from the late Triassic period (Carnian stage) of Dockum Group in Texas, United States. It is known from the holotype UMMP 10336[1] is composed of a skull, lower jaws and partial postcranium and from the associated paratype UMMP 14366, nearly complete skull, recovered from the 'Pre-Tecovas Horizon' in the Dockum Group.[2][3] It was first named by Case in 1929 and the type species is Brachysuchus megalodon. Its closest relative was Angistorhinus.[3] However, its rostral crest was much smaller than that of Angistorhinus, and the rostrum as a whole is shorter and thicker.
- ^ "UMMP VP 10336". University of Michigan Online Repository of Fossils. University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
- ^ Case, E. C. (1929). "Description of the skull of a new form of phytosaur with notes on the characters of described North American phytosaurs". Memoirs of the University of Michigan Museums, Museum of Paleontology. 2: 1–56.
- ^ a b Michelle R. Stocker (2010). "A new taxon of phytosaur (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) from the Late Triassic (Norian) Sonsela Member (Chinle Formation) in Arizona, and a critical reevaluation of Leptosuchus Case, 1922". Palaeontology. 53 (5): 997–1022. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00983.x. S2CID 83536253.