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Mystriosuchinae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	159225	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=159225

Rank

subfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosuchia : Parasuchidae : Mystriosuchinae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
-	Pseudosuchia
-	Phytosauria
family	Parasuchidae	Lydekker 1885
subfamily	Mystriosuchinae	von Huene 1915

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Mystriosuchinae	subfamily	belongs to Mystriosuchidea	stated with evidence	Long and Murry, 1995
Mystriosuchinae	subfamily	belongs to Parasuchidae	stated with evidence	Kammerer et al., 2016

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

237 - 228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic

Last Recorded Appearance

201 - 197 Ma
Early Jurassic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Diapsida)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Phytosauria)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. A. Long and P. A. Murry. 1995. Late Triassic (Carnian and Norian) tetrapods from the southwestern United States. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 4:1-254

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Phytosaurinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)
Angistorhinus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	11	237 Ma Middle Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Brachysuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Protome ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Rutiodon ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	19	237 Ma Middle Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Leptosuchomorpha ✝ unranked clade	listed (PBDB)	204	237 Ma Middle Triassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1828	Phytosauridae Jaeger
1871	Belodontidae Cope
1875	Belodontidae Cope p. 14
1887	Belodontidae Baur p. 102
1902	Phytosauridae Hay p. 509
1910	Belodontidae Jaekel p. 340
1915	Phytosauridae Lull p. 98
1915	Mystriosuchinae von Huene
1917	Phytosauridae Lull p. 110
1917	Phytosauridae Watson p. 179
1922	Phytosauridae Huene p. 23
1946	Phytosauridae Kuhn p. 64
1964	Phytosauridae Kuhn p. 319
1966	Phytosauridae Kuhn p. 81

Year	Name and Author
1971	Phytosauridae Kuhn p. 14
1985	Phytosauridae Galton
1986	Phytosauridae Parrish and Carpenter p. 152
1988	Phytosauridae Carroll
1989	Phytosauridae Gauthier et al. p. 348
1995	Phytosauridae Doyle and Sues p. 546
1995	Mystriosuchinae Long and Murry
1998	Phytosauridae Hungerbühler p. 17
2002	Phytosauridae Hungerbühler p. 380
2006	Phytosauridae Parker and Irmis
2010	Phytosauridae Stocker p. supplement
2013	Phytosauridae Stocker and Butler
2016	Mystriosuchinae Kammerer et al.
2019	Mystriosuchinae Datta et al.

References

Long R. A., Murry P. A. (1995) Late Triassic (Carnian and Norian) tetrapods from the southwestern United States, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 4, 1-254

Cope E. D. Check-list of North American Batrachia and Reptilia; with a systematic list of the higher groups, and an essay on geographical distribution. Based on the specimens contained in the U. S. National Museum, Bulletin of the United States National Museum 1, 1-109

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

Jaekel O. (1910) Über das System der Reptilien [On the system of reptiles], Zoologische Anzeiger 35, 324-341

Lull R. S. (1915) Triassic life of the Connecticut Valley, State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin 24, 1-285

Huene F. v. (1922) The Triassic reptilian order Thecodontia, The American Journal of Science, series 5 4, 22-26

Kuhn O. (1946) Das System der fossilen und rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien [The system of fossil and recent amphibians and reptiles], Bericht der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bamberg 29, 49-67

Kuhn O. (1964) Ungelöste Probleme der Stammesgeschichte der Amphibien und Reptilien [Unsolved problems of the phylogeny of amphibians and reptiles], Jahreshefte des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg 118/119, 293-325

Kuhn O. W. M. (1966) , Die Reptilien. System und Stammesgeschichte [The Reptiles. Systematics and Phylogeny.], 1-154

Kuhn O. (1971) , Die Saurier der deutschen Trias [Reptiles of the German Triassic], 1-105

Galton P. M. (1985) The poposaurid thecodontian Teratosaurus suevicus v. Meyer, plus referred specimens mostly based on prosauropod dinosaurs, from the Middle Stubensandstein (Upper Triassic) of Nordwürttemberg, Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 116, 1-29

Parrish J. M., Carpenter K. (1986) A new vertebrate fauna from the Dockum Formation (Late Triassic) of eastern New Mexico, The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs: Faunal Change Across the Triassic–Jurassic Boundary. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 151-160

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Gauthier J. A., Cannatella D., et al (1989) Tetrapod phylogeny, In B. Fernholm, K. Bremer, & H. Jörnvall (eds.), The Hierarchy of Life. Elsevier Science Publishers B. V., Amsterdam, 337-353

Doyle K. D., Sues H.-D. (1995) Phytosaurs (Reptilia: Archosauria) from the Upper Triassic New Oxford Formation of York County, Pennsylvania, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15 3, 545-553

Hungerbühler A. (1998) Cranial anatomy and diversity of the Norian phytosaurs from southwest Germany, Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Bristol, 1-464

Hungerbühler A. (2002) The Late Triassic phytosaur Mystriosuchus westphali, with a revision of the genus, Palaeontology 45 2, 377-418

Parker W. G., Irmis R. B. (2006) A new species of the Late Triassic phytosaur Pseudopalatus (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) from Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, A Century of Research at Petrified Forest National Park, 1906-2006: Geology and Paleontology. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 62, 126-143

Stocker M. R. (2010) A new taxon of phytosaur (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) from the Late Triassic (Norian) Sonsela Member (Chinle Formation) in Arizona, and a critical reevaluation of Leptosuchus Case, 1922, Palaeontology 53, 997-1022

Stocker M. R., Butler R. J. (2013) Phytosauria, Anatomy, Phylogeny and Palaeobiology of Early Archosaurs and their Kin. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 379

Kammerer C. F., Butler R. J., et al (2016) Relationships of the Indian phytosaur Parasuchus hislopi Lydekker, 1885, Papers in Palaeontology 2, 1-23

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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