Riojasuchus

Taxobox
name = "Riojasuchus"
fossil_range = Late Triassic


image_width = 250px
image_caption = "Riojasuchus tenuiceps"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
infraclassis = Archosauromorpha
unranked_ordo = Crurotarsi
familia = Ornithosuchidae
genus = "Riojasuchus"
genus_authority= Bonaparte, 1969
subdivision_ranks=Species
subdivision=
*"R. tenuisceps" Bonaparte, 1969 (type)

"Riojasuchus" is an extinct genus of quadrupedal crurotarsan archosaur.

Closely related species

"Venaticosuchus" is a member of Ornithosuchidae, a family of facultatively bipedal carnivores that were geographically widespread during the Late Triassic. Two other genera, "Ornithosuchus" and "Venaticosuchus", are currently known.