"[3] The discovery of Confractosuchus was announced by the Australian Age of Dinosaurs museum on 11 February 2022, and was published in the journal Gondwana Research.

It was discovered in 2010 during the excavation of poorly preserved sauropod material within a concretion that formed between black soil and volcanogenic clay.

[3] Initial CT scans of the abdominal cavity were unsuccessful as the dense matrix was opaque to laboratory and medical X-rays.

Since the digestive secretions in the stomach of crocodiles are strong, the preserved dinosaur means that it was eaten shortly before the crocodyliform's death.

[1] The name Confractosuchus derives from the Latin confractus meaning "broken" and the Greek suchus for "crocodile."

[7] Phylogenetic analysis recovered Confractosuchus as a basal Eusuchian nested outside a clade formed by susisuchids and hylaeochampsids.

[7] Allodaposuchus precedens Lohuecosuchus mechinorum Agaresuchus subjuniperus Bernissartia fagesii Koumpiodontosuchus aprosdokii Confractosuchus sauroktonos Isisfordia duncani Susisuchus anatoceps Acynodon adriaticus Acynodon iberoccitanus Iharkutosuchus makadii Hylaeochampsa vectiana Borealosuchus formadibilis Crocodylia Confractosuchus is a rare example of a fossil crocodyliform with preserved stomach content, and is the first evidence of a crocodyliform eating a dinosaur.

[11] Its prey, a juvenile ornithopod, is represented by multiple vertebrae and limb bones most likely belonging to a single individual.

[1] The vertebrae are partly articulated, party associated, suggesting the animal was not fully digested by the time the crocodyliform died.

Analysis of the skull morphology suggests that Confractosuchus was a macro-generalist, meaning it would have been capable of taking prey larger than itself.