|Named By:||P. L. Godoy, F. C. Montefeltro, M. A. Norell & M. C. Langer in 2014|
|Time Period:||Late Cretaceous, Turonian-Santonian|
|Location:||Brazil, Sao Paulo - Adamantina Formation|
|Size:||Roughly about 2 meters long|
|Fossil(s):||Skull as well as partial articulated skeleton|
|Classification:||| Chordata | Reptilia | Crocodylomorpha | Notosuchia | Baurusuchidae | Baurusuchinae ||
Aplestosuchus is an extinct genus of baurusuchid mesoeucrocodylian known from the Late Cretaceous Adamantina Formation of Sao 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.