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
(unranked): Leptosuchomorpha
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] It includes the most ecologically divergent phytosaurs, the terrestrial Nicrosaurus[3] and the fully aquatic Mystriosuchus.[4]

Phylogeny

Below is a cladogram from Stocker (2012):[5]

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. ↑ Kimmig, J. 2013. Possible secondarily terrestrial lifestyle in the European phytosaur Nicrosaurus kapfii (Late Triassic, Norian): a preliminary study. Bulletin of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science 61, 306-312.
  4. ↑ Gozzi, E. & Renesto, S.A. 2003. Complete specimen of Mystriosuchus (Reptilia, Phytosauria) from the Norian (Late Triassic) of Lombardy (Northern Italy). Rivista Italiana Di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 109(3): 475-498.
  5. ↑ 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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