Parasuchidae

{{Short description|Extinct clade of reptiles}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Parasuchidae | fossil_range = [[Carnian]] - [[Rhaetian]], {{fossil range|Carnian|Rhaetian|}} | image = Machaeroprosopus mccauleyi.jpg | image_caption = Skull of ''[[Machaeroprosopus|Machaeroprosopus mccauleyi]]'' | authority = Lydekker, 1885 | subdivision_ranks = Subgroups | subdivision = * {{extinct}}''[[Arganarhinus]]'' * {{extinct}}''[[Compsosaurus]]'' * {{extinct}}''[[Ebrachosuchus]]'' * {{extinct}}''[[Paleorhinus]]'' * {{extinct}}''[[Parasuchus]]'' * {{extinct}}''[[Phytosaurus]]'' * {{extinct}}''[[Wannia]]'' * '''Mystriosuchinae''' ** {{extinct}}''[[Angistorhinus]]'' ** {{extinct}}''[[Brachysuchus]]'' ** {{extinct}}''[[Colossosuchus]]'' ** {{extinct}}''[[Jupijkam]]'' ** {{extinct}}''[[Protome (reptile)|Protome]]'' ** {{extinct}}''[[Rutiodon]]'' ** {{extinct}}''[[Volcanosuchus]]'' ** {{extinct}}[[Leptosuchomorpha]] }}

'''Parasuchidae''' is a clade of [[phytosaur]]s more derived than ''[[Diandongosuchus]]'', a basal phytosaur. This family was phylogenetically defined by Christian Kammerer and colleagues in 2015 as the last common ancestor and all descendants of ''[[Wannia|Wannia scurriensis]]'', ''[[Parasuchus|Parasuchus hislopi]]'', and ''[[Mystriosuchus|Mystriosuchus planirostris]]''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|author1=Christian F. Kammerer |author2=Richard J. Butler |author3=Saswati Bandyopadhyay |author4=Michelle R. Stocker |year=2016 |title=Relationships of the Indian phytosaur ''Parasuchus hislopi'' Lydekker, 1885 |journal=Papers in Palaeontology |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=1–23 |doi=10.1002/spp2.1022 |s2cid=83780331 |url=http://pure-oai.bham.ac.uk/ws/files/19880739/Kammerer_et_al._2015._Accepted_MS.pdf }}</ref> It encompasses nearly all phytosaurs, including early ''[[Parasuchus]]''-[[Evolutionary grade|grade]] forms as well as a more restricted clade of more specialized phytosaurs. This more restricted clade is traditionally known as the family '''Phytosauridae''' and more recently as the subfamily '''Mystriosuchinae''', defined by Kammerer ''et al.'' 2015 as the last common ancestor and all descendants of ''[[Mystriosuchus|Mystriosuchus planirostris]]'' and ''[[Angistorhinus|Angistorhinus grandis]]''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|author1=Christian F. Kammerer |author2=Richard J. Butler |author3=Saswati Bandyopadhyay |author4=Michelle R. Stocker |year=2016 |title=Relationships of the Indian phytosaur ''Parasuchus hislopi'' Lydekker, 1885 |journal=Papers in Palaeontology |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=1–23 |doi=10.1002/spp2.1022 |s2cid=83780331 |url=http://pure-oai.bham.ac.uk/ws/files/19880739/Kammerer_et_al._2015._Accepted_MS.pdf }}</ref>

Parasuchids have been recovered from Late Triassic deposits in [[Europe]], [[North America]], [[India]], [[Morocco]], [[Thailand]], [[Brazil]], [[Greenland]]<ref>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.</ref> 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.<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> 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.<ref>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.</ref>

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