Dolichochampsa
| Dolichochampsa | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
| Clade: | Metasuchia |
| Clade: | Neosuchia |
| Clade: | Eusuchia |
| Family: | †Dolichochampsidae De Gasparini & Buffetaut 1980 |
| Genus: | †Dolichochampsa Gasparini & Buffetaut 1980 |
| Type species | |
| †Dolichochampsa minima Gasparini & Buffetaut 1980
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Dolichochampsa is an
extinct genus of eusuchian crocodylomorph. It is the type genus and only member of the family Dolichochampsidae.[1] Fossils have been found in the Yacoraite Formation of Argentina and the El Molino Formation of Bolivia of Maastrichtian age.[2] It had a distinctive slender snout.[3] Because the material associated with the specimens is so fragmentary, its relationships with other eusuchians remain unknown.[4] Jouve et al. (2020) assigned Dolichochampsa to Gavialoidea, making it the oldest known South American member of this clade.[5]