Sterling J. Nesbitt (2011) revised the classification of basal archosaurs, and using the most comprehensive phylogenetic analysis for this group (to date) found Prestosuchidae to be non-monophyletic. The members of this clade were recovered as basal loricatan, of which "Batrachotomus" was found to be the most derived i.e. most closely related to the clade containing Crocodylomorpha and Rauisuchidae. Subsequent derivatives of this analysis further support this hypothesis. In a yet to be formally published revision of "Heptasuchus", a medium-sized (~5 m long) "rauisuchian" from the upper Chugwater Group of Wyoming, it was recovered as the sister taxon of "Batrachotomus" using a derivative of Nesbitt (2011) analysis.