Mystriosuchini

{{Short description|Extinct tribe of reptiles}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = [[Late Triassic]] {{fossil range|228|201.4}} | image = Machaeroprosopus mccauleyi.jpg | image_caption = Skull of ''[[Machaeroprosopus|Machaeroprosopus mccauleyi]]'' | taxon = Mystriosuchini | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = * {{extinct}}''[[Angistorhinopsis]]'' * {{extinct}}''[[Coburgosuchus]]'' * {{extinct}}''[[Machaeroprosopus]]'' * {{extinct}}''[[Mystriosuchus]]'' * {{extinct}}''[[Nicrosaurus]]'' * {{extinct}}''[[Redondasaurus]]'' | synonyms = * Mystriosuchidae <small>Huene, 1915</small> * Pseudopalatinae <small>Long and Murry, 1995</small> }}

'''Mystriosuchini''', historically known as '''Pseudopalatinae''', is an extinct [[Family (taxonomy)|tribe]] (formerly subfamily) of derived [[phytosaur]]s in the clade Leptosuchomorpha. As with all other phytosaurs, mystriosuchins lived during [[Late Triassic]]. The name is derived from the genus ''[[Mystriosuchus]]'', and the clade was phylogenetically defined by Andrew S. Jones and Richard J. Butler in 2018 as the last common ancestor and all descendants of ''[[Mystriosuchus|Mystriosuchus planirostris]]'', ''[[Machaeroprosopus|Machaeroprosopus jablonskiae]]'', and ''[[Machaeroprosopus|Machaeroprosopus buceros]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Jones |first1=Andrew S. |last2=Butler |first2=Richard J. |title=A new phylogenetic analysis of Phytosauria (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) with the application of continuous and geometric morphometric character coding |journal=PeerJ |date=10 December 2018 |volume=6 |article-number=e5901 |doi=10.7717/peerj.5901|pmid=30581656 |pmc=6292387 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

Genera classified in Mystriosuchini include ''[[Coburgosuchus]]'', ''[[Machaeroprosopus]]'', ''[[Mystriosuchus]]'', ''[[Nicrosaurus]]'' and ''[[Redondasaurus]]''.<ref name="Hungerbühler, 2002">Hungerbühler A. 2002. The Late Triassic phytosaur ''Mystriosuchus westphali'', with a revision of the genus. ''Palaeontology'' '''45''' (2): 377-418</ref><ref>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</ref> It includes the most ecologically divergent phytosaurs, the terrestrial ''[[Nicrosaurus]]''<ref>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.</ref> and the fully aquatic ''[[Mystriosuchus]]''.<ref>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.</ref>

==Phylogeny== Below is a [[cladogram]] from Stocker (2012):<ref name=SMR12>{{Cite journal | last1 = Stocker | first1 = M. R. | title = 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 | doi = 10.1080/02724634.2012.649815 | journal = Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology | volume = 32 | issue = 3 | pages = 573–586 | year = 2012 }}</ref> {{clade| style=font-size:100%;line-height:85% |label1=[[Phytosauria]] |1={{clade |1=''[[Wannia scurriensis]]'' |2={{clade |1=''[[Paleorhinus bransoni]]'' |2={{clade |1=''[[Paleorhinus|"Paleorhinus" sawini]]'' |label2=[[Mystriosuchinae]] |2={{clade |1=''[[Brachysuchus megalodon]]'' |2=''[[Angistorhinus]]'' |3={{clade |1=''[[Rutiodon carolinensis]]'' |2=''"Machaeroprosopus" zunii'' |3=''[[Protome batalaria]]'' |label4=[[Leptosuchomorpha]] |4={{clade |1=''"Phytosaurus" doughtyi'' |2=TMM 31173-120 |3={{clade |1=''[[Leptosuchus crosbiensis]]'' |2=''[[Leptosuchus studeri]]''}} |4={{clade |1={{clade |1=''[[Smilosuchus lithodendrorum]]'' |2={{clade |1=''[[Smilosuchus adamanensis]]'' |2=''[[Smilosuchus gregorii]]''}} }} |2={{clade |1=''[[Pravusuchus hortus]]'' |label2='''Mystriosuchini''' |2={{clade |1=''[[Machaeroprosopus mccauleyi]]'' |2={{clade |1=''[[Mystriosuchus westphali]]'' |2=''[[Machaeroprosopus pristinus]]'' }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }}

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[[Category:Phytosauria]] [[Category:Late Triassic first appearances]] [[Category:Late Triassic extinctions]]