伟鳄兽科（（学名：Titanosuchidae），属于兽孔目恐头兽亚目的貘头兽下目，是一科肉食性或杂食性（可能也有草食性）动物。如同其他貘头兽类，伟鳄兽科动物有厚头颅骨，可能用来互相以头撞击。牠们出现在二叠纪中期。牠们有大型犬齿，牠们的门齿非常强壮。伟鳄兽科与其他恐头兽类是近亲，例如麝足兽等貘头兽科。最著名的伟鳄兽科动物包括：姜氏兽与伟鳄兽。如同其他恐头兽类，牠们在二叠纪-三叠纪灭绝事件中灭绝了。
参考资料
- L. D. Boonstra, "The Fauna of the Tapinocephalus Zone (Beaufort Beds of the Karoo)", Annals of the South African Museum, 56 (1) 1969, pp. 1–73
- Carroll, R. L. Vertebrate paleontology and evolution. -W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988
- Edwin H. Colbert, Evolution of the Vertebrates, 2nd edition, 1969, John Wiley & Sons
- James A. Hopson and Herbert R. Barghusen, "An Analysis of Therapsid Relationships", in The Ecology and Biology of Mammal-Like Reptiles ed. by Nocholas Hotton III, Paul D. MacLean, Jan J. Roth and E. Carol Roth, Smithsonian Institute Press, Washington and London, 1986, pp.83–106
- Gillian M. King, "Anomodontia" Part 17 C, Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology, Gutsav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart and New York, 1988
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