Mystriosuchus westphali Hungerbühler and Hunt 2000 (archosaur)

Reptilia - Phytosauria - Parasuchidae

Full reference: A. Hungerbühler and A. P. Hunt. 2000. Two new phytosaur species (Archosauria, Crurotarsi) from the Upper Triassic of southwest Germany. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 2000(8):467-484

Belongs to Mystriosuchus according to M. R. Stocker and R. J. Butler 2013

See also Hungerbühler 2002 and Stocker 2010

Sister taxon: Mystriosuchus planirostris

Type specimen: GPIT 261/001, a skull (Complete skull lacking the mandible). Its type locality is Untere Mühle, Trossingen, which is in a Norian floodplain sandstone in the Löwenstein Formation of Germany.

Ecology: carnivore

Distribution:

• Triassic of Germany (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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