Ogresuchus furatus was a small crocodyliform that lived during the Late Cretaceous, about 66 million years ago, in what is now Catalonia, Spain.
It was originally classified as a sebecid, which would have made it the earliest known member of that family, but a more recent analysis suggests it was probably instead an atoposaurid.
Around 1m long (~3’3″), it was a lightly-built generalist predator that would have fed on invertebrates and small vertebrates — possibly even including sauropod hatchlings, since its fossil remains were discovered in a titanosaur nesting site.
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