Xilousuchus

Xilousuchus
Temporal range: Early Triassic,
Reconstruction of the Xilousuchus head
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauria
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Poposauroidea
Family: Ctenosauriscidae
Genus: Xilousuchus
Wu, 1981
Species:
X. sapingensis
Binomial name
Xilousuchus sapingensis
Wu, 1981

Xilousuchus is an extinct genus of poposauroid from lower Triassic (Olenekian stage) deposits of Fugu County of northeastern Shanxi Province, China. Xilousuchus is one of the oldest archosaurs known to date.