It is known from the Late Triassic Tiki Formation in the Shahdol District of central India and was the first rauisuchid to have been found in Asia.

Tikisuchus is known only from one specimen, called ISI R 305, which consists of the skull and some postcranial elements of a young individual.

Tetrapods from the Tiki site include Paleorhinus, a phytosaur, Metoposaurus, a temnospondyl, and Paradapedon, a rhynchosaur.

Chatterjee and Majumdar thought that there was an "ecological balance" during the Carnian stage on the basis of little change in the paleofauna of the time.

Therefore, they suggested that theropods, which were more suited to living in an open environment, outcompeted rauisuchids at the end of the Triassic to become the dominant large land carnivores by the beginning of the Jurassic.

[1] However, more recent studies suggest that dinosaurs gained dominance only after the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event in a case of opportunism with no other large archosaurs such as rauisuchids to compete with.