Erythrochampsa

Erythrochampsa; Temporal range: Early Jurassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Subclass:	Diapsida
Infraclass:	Archosauromorpha
Superorder:	Crocodylomorpha
Suborder:	Protosuchia
Family:	Protosuchidae
Genus:	Erythrochampsa; (Broom, 1904)
Species
	E. longipes (Broom, 1904 [originally Notochampsa longipes]) (type);

Erythrochampsa ("red crocodile") is an extinct genus of protosuchian crocodyliform. Fossils have been found from the Red Beds of the Stormberg Group, the youngest group of strata from the Karoo Supergroup outcropping in South Africa.

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