 During the nineteenth and most of the twentieth century, "Suchosaurus" was usually considered to have been some obscure crocodilian, perhaps belonging to the Pholidosauridae.Single comparable teeth discovered in England were referred to the genus.However, when publishing a redescription of "Baryonyx" in 1998, British palaeontologist Angela Milner realised that the teeth of that spinosaurid dinosaur were extremely similar to those of "Suchosaurus".