| Gracilisuchus Temporal range: Middle Triassic |
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| life restoration of Gracilisuchus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Infraclass: | Archosauromorpha |
| (unranked): | Suchia |
| Genus: | Gracilisuchus |
| Species: | G. stipanicicorum |
| Binomial name | |
| Gracilisuchus stipanicicorum Romer, 1972 |
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Gracilisuchus (meaning "graceful crocodile") is an extinct genus of tiny (30 cm long) crurotarsan (a group which includes the ancestors of crocodilians) from the Middle Triassic. It was a suchian close to the ancestry of crocodiles, and was at one time thought to be a dinosaur, but this hypothesis has since been rejected. Its fossils were first discovered in the 1970s.
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