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Skull in multiple views
| Gobiosuchus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Specimen encased in armour | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
| Family: | †Gobiosuchidae |
| Genus: | †Gobiosuchus Osmólska, 1972 |
| Species: | †G. kielanae
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| Binomial name | |
| †Gobiosuchus kielanae Osmólska, 1972
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Gobiosuchus ("Gobi [desert] crocodile") was a gobiosuchid crocodyliform described in 1972 by Polish palaeontologist Halszka Osmólska. It hails from the Late Cretaceous (Early Campanian) of Bayn Dzak (Djadokhta Formation), in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia.
The type species is Gobiosuchus kielanae. Gobiosuchus kielanae, along with Zaraasuchus shepardi, belongs to the family Gobiosuchidae.
