鑿齒鱷屬

凿齿鳄属; 化石时期：
科学分类
界：	动物界 Animalia
门：	脊索动物门 Chordata
纲：	Reptilia
目：	†植龙目 Phytosauria
科：	†植龙科 Phytosauridae
属：	†凿齿鳄属 Smilosuchus; Long & Murry, 1995
模式種
	格氏凿齿鳄; Smilosuchus gregorii; (Camp, 1930)
其他物種
	安达曼凿齿鳄; S. adamanensis; (Camp, 1930) Stocker, 2010; S. lithodendrorum; (Camp, 1930) Stocker, 2010;

鑿齒鱷屬（學名：Smilosuchus）是一種已滅絕爬行動物，属于植龍目，生存於三疊紀晚期的北美洲。在1995年，鑿齒鱷最初被歸類於Leptosuchus的一個種，L. gregorii[1]。但牠們的吻突上方具有較大冠飾，與有較小、較狹窄冠飾的Leptosuchus不同，因此被建立為新屬。但近年有研究認為，某些Leptosuchus也發展出有較大冠飾的吻突，因此鑿齒鱷與Leptosuchus可能是相同屬[2]。

S. gregorii 和 S. adamanensis

參考資料

Long, R. A., and Murry, P. A. (1995). Late Triassic (Carnian and Norian) tetrapods from the southwestern United States. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 4:1-254.
Irmis, R. B. (2005). The vertebrate fauna of the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation in Northern Arizona. In: Nesbitt, S. J., Parker, W. G. and Irmis, R. B., eds., Guidebook to the Triassic Formations of the Colorado Plateau in northern Arizona: Geology, Paleontology, and History. Mesa Southwest Museum, Bulletin No. 9.

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[1] Long, R. A., and Murry, P. A. (1995). Late Triassic (Carnian and Norian) tetrapods from the southwestern United States. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 4:1-254.

[2] Irmis, R. B. (2005). The vertebrate fauna of the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation in Northern Arizona. In: Nesbitt, S. J., Parker, W. G. and Irmis, R. B., eds., Guidebook to the Triassic Formations of the Colorado Plateau in northern Arizona: Geology, Paleontology, and History. Mesa Southwest Museum, Bulletin No. 9.