Mystriosuchini

Mystriosuchini
Temporal range: Late Triassic
Skull of Machaeroprosopus mccauleyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Infraclass: Archosauromorpha
(unranked): Crurotarsi
Order: Phytosauria
Family: Parasuchidae
Subfamily: Mystriosuchinae
Tribe: Mystriosuchini
Synonyms
  • Mystriosuchinae Huene, 1915
  • Mystriosuchidae Huene, 1915
  • Pseudopalatinae Long and Murry, 1995

Mystriosuchini is an extinct tribe of derived phytosaurs in the clade Leptosuchomorpha. As with all other phytosaurs, mystriosuchins lived during Late Triassic. The name is derived from the genus Mystriosuchus.

Genera classified in Mystriosuchini include Coburgosuchus, Machaeroprosopus, Mystriosuchus, Nicrosaurus and Redondasaurus.[1][2]

Phylogeny

Below is a cladogram from Stocker (2012):[3]

Phytosauria 

Wannia scurriensis

Paleorhinus bransoni

"Paleorhinus" sawini


Mystriosuchinae

Brachysuchus megalodon

Angistorhinus

Rutiodon carolinensis

"Machaeroprosopus" zunii

Protome batalaria


Leptosuchomorpha

"Phytosaurus" doughtyi

TMM 31173-120

Leptosuchus crosbiensis

Leptosuchus studeri


Smilosuchus lithodendrorum

Smilosuchus adamanensis

Smilosuchus gregorii

Pravusuchus hortus


Mystriosuchini

Machaeroprosopus mccauleyi

Mystriosuchus westphali

Machaeroprosopus pristinus












References

  1. ↑ Hungerbühler A. 2002. The Late Triassic phytosaur Mystriosuchus westphali, with a revision of the genus. Palaeontology 45 (2): 377-418
  2. ↑ Kammerer, C. F., Butler, R. J., Bandyopadhyay, S., Stocker, M. R. (2016), Relationships of the Indian phytosaur Parasuchus hislopi Lydekker, 1885. Papers in Palaeontology, 2: 1–23. doi: 10.1002/spp2.1022
  3. ↑ Stocker, M. R. (2012). "A new phytosaur (Archosauriformes, Phytosauria) from the Lot's Wife beds (Sonsela Member) within the Chinle Formation (Upper Triassic) of Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (3): 573–586. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.649815.
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