Rhinesuchus

Taxobox
name = "Rhinesuchus"
fossil_range = Late Permian

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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Amphibia
ordo = Temnospondyli
familia = Rhinesuchidae
genus = "Rhinesuchus"

"Rhinesuchus" ("nose crocodile") was a large labyrinthodont amphibian whose fossil remains are known from the Permian of South African Karoo Basin ("Tapinocephalus" and "Cistecephalus" assemblage zones, Beaufort Group). It was considered to be the last of its kind (labyrinthodonts) until the discovery of "Koolasuchus".

In popular culture

"Rhinesuchus" was featured in the 2005 BBC series "Walking With Monsters", which depicted it as a crocodile-like animal that wrapped itself in a cocoon during dry periods, like a lungfish; only it was unearthed and eaten by a "Gorgonops" during its last ditch attempt to sit out the drought.