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.