Baurusuchus is an extinct member of the ancestral crocodilian lineage and is a genus of baurusuchid mesoeucrocodylian.
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. 
