Claim: Baurusuchus is an extinct member of the ancestral crocodilian lineage and is a genus of baurusuchid mesoeucrocodylian.
Evidence: Baurusuchus is an extinct member of the ancestral crocodilian lineage, which lived in Brazil from 90 to 83.5 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous period. Technically, it is a genus of baurusuchid mesoeucrocodylian.