''Strigosuchus'' is an extinct genus of crurotarsan from the Early Jurassic of

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. Remains have been found from the

Lower Lufeng Series The Lufeng Formation (formerly Lower Lufeng Series) is a Lower Jurassic sedimentary rock formation found in Yunnan, China. It has two units: the lower Dull Purplish Beds/Shawan Member are of Hettangian age, and Dark Red Beds/Zhangjia'ao Member ar ...

in Yunnan. The genus was named by paleontologist D.J. Simmons in 1965 with the type species being ''S. licinus''. Although originally classified as an

ornithosuchid Ornithosuchidae is an extinct family of pseudosuchian archosaurs (distant relatives of modern crocodilians) from the Triassic period. Ornithosuchids were quadrupedal and facultatively bipedal (e.g. like chimpanzees), meaning that they had the a ...

, the fragmentary holotype specimen of ''Strigosuchus'' has been suggested to be from a sphenosuchian rather than an ornithosuchid. Other Lufeng crocodylomorphs found in association with ''Strigosuchus'' include the protosuchian ''

Platyognathus ''Platyognathus'' is an extinct genus of protosuchian crocodylomorph. Fossils are known from the Early Jurassic Lower Lufeng Formation in Yunnan, China and belong to the type and only species, ''P. hsui''. Description The skull of ''Platyogna ...

'' and the sphenosuchian ''

Dibothrosuchus ''Dibothrosuchus'' is a genus of sphenosuchian, a type of basal crocodylomorph, the clade that comprises the crocodilians and their closest kin. It is known from several partial skeletons and skulls. These fossils were found in Lower Jurassic ...

''.

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Early Jurassic reptiles of Asia Early Jurassic crocodylomorphs Terrestrial crocodylomorphs {{paleo-archosaur-stub