Parasuchidae

Parasuchidae is a clade of phytosaurs more derived than Diandongosuchus.

Parasuchidae Temporal range: Carnian - Rhaetian, 245–199.6 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Skull of Machaeroprosopus mccauleyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Crurotarsi
Order:	†Phytosauria
Clade:	†Parasuchidae Lydekker, 1885
Subgroups
†Arganarhinus †Ebrachosuchus †Paleorhinus †Parasuchus †Wannia Mystriosuchinae †Angistorhinus †Brachysuchus †Protome †Rutiodon †Volcanosuchus †Leptosuchomorpha

Parasuchids have been recovered from Late Triassic deposits in Europe, North America, India, Morocco, Thailand, Brazil, Greenland[1] and Madagascar. In their osteology of Parasuchus, Kammerer et al. (2016) suggested using Parasuchidae to include taxa traditionally included in Phytosauridae as well as Parasuchus-grade taxa.[2] Stocker et al. (2017) use the phytosaur classification advocated by Kammerer et al. (2016) by recovering Diandongosuchus as the basalmost phytosaur outside Parasuchidae, noting that Diandongosuchus has a shorter snout than parasuchids.[3]

References

1. Mateus, O., Clemmensen L., Klein N., Wings O., Frobøse N., Milàn J., Adolfssen J., & Estrup E. (2014). The Late Triassic of Jameson Land revisited: new vertebrate findings and the first phytosaur from Greenland. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Program and Abstracts, 2014, 182.
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. Michelle R. Stocker; Li-Jun Zhao; Sterling J. Nesbitt; Xiao-Chun Wu; Chun Li (2017). "A Short-Snouted, Middle Triassic Phytosaur and its Implications for the Morphological Evolution and Biogeography of Phytosauria". Scientific Reports. 7: Article number 46028. doi:10.1038/srep46028.