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
Subgroups
See text.

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

Chroniosuchidae

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.