Bystrowianidae

Bystrowianidae
Temporal range: Late Permian - Middle Triassic
Life restoration of Bystrowiana permira
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Chroniosuchia
Family: Bystrowianidae
Vyushkov, 1957

Bystrowianidae is a family of chroniosuchian reptiliomorphs from the Permian and Triassic periods.[1]

Phylogeny

Below is the cladogram from Buchwitz et al. (2012) showing the phylogenetic relations of bystrowianids:[2]

Chroniosuchia 

 Madygenerpeton 




 Chroniosaurus dongusensis 




 Chroniosaurus levis 




 Suchonica 



 Jarilinus 



 Chroniosuchus 




 Uralerpeton 


Bystrowianidae


 Synesuchus



 Bystrowiella





 Bystrowiana




 Axitectum



 Dromotectum










References

  1. Florian Witzmann, Rainer R. Schoch and Michael W. Maisch (2008). "A relict basal tetrapod from Germany: first evidence of a Triassic chroniosuchian outside Russia" (PDF). Naturwissenschaften 95 (1): 67–72. doi:10.1007/s00114-007-0291-6.
  2. Buchwitz, M.; Foth, C.; Kogan, I.; Voigt, S. (2012). "On the use of osteoderm features in a phylogenetic approach on the internal relationships of the Chroniosuchia (Tetrapoda: Reptiliomorpha)". Palaeontology 55 (3): 623–640. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2012.01137.x.