| Iberosuchus Temporal range: Eocene |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Subclass: | Diapsida |
| Infraclass: | Archosauromorpha |
| (unranked): | Crurotarsi |
| Superorder: | Crocodylomorpha |
| (unranked): | Mesoeucrocodylia |
| Family: | Sebecidae |
| Genus: | Iberosuchus Antunes, 1975 |
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Iberosuchus (meaning "Iberian crocodile") is an extinct genus of sebecid mesoeucrocodylian from the Eocene of western Europe. It was described in 1975 by Antunes from remains from Portugal as a sebecosuchian crocodilian. The type species is I. macrodon.[1] It was reclassified as a baurusuchid by Robert Carroll in 1988,[2] and its range was extended to France in 1996 by Ortega and colleagues, who reassessed the fragmentary species Atacisaurus crassiproratus as an example of Iberosuchus (cf. Iberosuchus, not assigned to any species).[3] Iberosuchus was a carnivore, but unlike modern crocodilians, sebecosuchians are regarded as terrestrial, not aquatic.