Notosuchia

Notosuchia Fossil range: Early Cretaceous - Late Cretaceous
Anatosuchus minor, a crocodylomorph from the Early Cretaceous of Niger, after Sereno (2003)
Scientific classification
Class:	Sauropsida
Subclass:	Diapsida
Infraclass:	Archosauromorpha
Superorder:	Crocodylomorpha
Suborder:	Notosuchia Gasparini, 1971
Families:	Notosuchidae† Chimaerasuchidae† Baurusuchidae† Sphagesauridae†

Notosuchia is a suborder of Mesoeucrocodylia that lived during the Cretaceous. It was a clade of terrestrial crocodilians that evolved a range of feeding behaviours, including: herbivory (Chimaerasuchus), terrestrial hypercarnivory (Baurusuchus), and omnivory (Simosuchus).

Genera

The evolutionary interrelationships of Notosuchia are in flux, but the following genera are generally considered notosuchians: