Lycosuchus vanderrieti

Lycosuchus Temporal range: Middle Permian, 265–260 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Lycosuchus sp. skull at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	Therapsida
Suborder:	†Therocephalia
Family:	†Lycosuchidae
Genus:	†Lycosuchus
Species
†L. mackayi †L. vanderrieti

Lycosuchus ("wolf crocodile") is an extinct genus of carnivorous therocephalians which lived in the Middle Permian 265—260 Ma existing for approximately 5 million years. It was a medium-sized predator, reaching 1.2 m (3.8 ft) in length with a skull 23 cm long.

Discovered in South Africa, it was named by paleontologist Robert Broom in 1903 and later assigned by him to Therocephalia.