| Alrausuchus Temporal range: Middle Permian | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | † Biarmosuchia |
| Family: | † Alrausuchidae Ivakhnenko, 2008 |
| Genus: | † Alrausuchus Ivakhnenko, 2008 |
| Type species | |
| †Alrausuchus tagax Ivakhnenko, 1990 | |
Alrausuchus is an extinct genus of biarmosuchian therapsids from Russia. It was named by M.F. Ivakhnenko in 2008, as a reclassification of the species Biarmosuchus tagax that Ivachnenko had named in 1990. Ivachnenko erected the monotypic family Alrausuchidae for the genus. [1]