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Mystriosuchus
Taxonomy
Mystriosuchus was named by Fraas (1896). Its type is Angistorhinopsis ruetimeyeri.
It was synonymized subjectively with Belodon by Kuhn (1966).
It was assigned to Mystriosuchidea by Huene (1922) and Case (1922); to Mystriosuchidae by Kuhn (1971); to Phytosauridae by Watson (1917), Kuhn (1964), Carroll (1988) and Hunt and Lucas (1989); to Parasuchia by Sereno (1991); to Mystriosuchinae by Long and Murry (1995); to Pseudopalatinae by Hungerbühler (2002), Stocker (2010) and Stocker and Butler (2013); and to Mystriosuchini by Kammerer et al. (2016).
It was synonymized subjectively with Belodon by Kuhn (1966).
It was assigned to Mystriosuchidea by Huene (1922) and Case (1922); to Mystriosuchidae by Kuhn (1971); to Phytosauridae by Watson (1917), Kuhn (1964), Carroll (1988) and Hunt and Lucas (1989); to Parasuchia by Sereno (1991); to Mystriosuchinae by Long and Murry (1995); to Pseudopalatinae by Hungerbühler (2002), Stocker (2010) and Stocker and Butler (2013); and to Mystriosuchini by Kammerer et al. (2016).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1896 | Mystriosuchus Fraas p. 16 |
| 1917 | Mystriosuchus Watson p. 179 |
| 1922 | Mystriosuchus Case p. 55 |
| 1922 | Mystriosuchus Huene p. 23 |
| 1964 | Mystriosuchus Kuhn p. 319 |
| 1971 | Mystriosuchus Kuhn p. 14 |
| 1988 | Mystriosuchus Carroll |
| 1989 | Mystriosuchus Hunt and Lucas p. 343 |
| 1991 | Mystriosuchus Sereno p. 15 |
| 1995 | Mystriosuchus Long and Murry |
| 2002 | Mystriosuchus Hungerbühler p. 380 |
| 2010 | Mystriosuchus Stocker p. supplement |
| 2013 | Mystriosuchus Stocker and Butler |
| 2016 | Mystriosuchus Kammerer et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Mystriosuchus Fraas 1896
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†Mystriosuchus planirostris Meyer 1863
†Mystriosuchus westphali Hungerbühler and Hunt 2000
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| A. Hungerbühler 2002 | Rostrum strongly elongated, ratio of rostral to narial plus postnarial length exceeds 2:2; interpremaxillary fossa reduced to a slit in the anterior part of the premaxilla; deep sculpture of the skull roof and the narial region; presence of a pre-orbital depression; anterior border of the supratemporal fenestra raised; dorsoventrally thick posterior section of the parieto-squamosal bar with a triangular cross-section; sharp lateral ridge of the squamosal; posterior process of the squamosal reduced; posttemporal fenestra strongly reduced (see character discussion below). |
Measurements
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| References: Benton 1983, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Alaunian to the top of the Early/Lower Hettangian or 215.56000 to 196.50000 Ma
Collections (10 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norian | Austria (Styria) | M. planirostris (97845) | |
| Norian | Germany (Baden-Württemberg) | Belodon planirostris, M. westphali (105832) M. westphali (105831 105833) | |
| Norian | Germany (Niedersachsen) | M. planirostris (106511) | |
| Alaunian | Italy (Lombardia) | M. sp., M. planirostris (36377) | |
| Alaunian | Germany (Baden-Württemberg) | M. sp. (47800) | |
| Sevatian | Italy (Lombardia) | M. sp. (106518) | |
| Rhaetian | Germany (Sachsen-Anhalt) | M. sp. (139488) | |
| Early/Lower Hettangian | United Kingdom (England) | M. sp. (97844) |