Mystriosuchus

Mystriosuchus is an extinct genus of phytosaur that lived in the Late Triassic in Europe and Greenland. It was first named by Eberhard Fraas in 1896, and includes four species: M. planirostris, M. westphali, M. steinbergeri, and M. alleroq.

Mystriosuchus

Nobu Tamura · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MystriosuchiniPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phytosauria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At least 9.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 211.18 Mya to 201.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 199.5 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 11 of 12 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 12 occurrencesEarly Jurassic228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences211–211 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences211–210 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences204–203 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences203–202 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences211.18 Mya201.4 Mya227.9 Mya198.9 Mya

12 occurrences of Mystriosuchus on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

12 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

7 formations

Löwenstein — 49.06°N, 8.98°ELöwenstein — 48.08°N, 8.64°ELöwenstein — 48.11°N, 8.69°EZorzino Limestone — 45.68°N, 9.72°EBlue Lias — 51.18°N, 3.33°WDachsteinkalk — 47.62°N, 14.01°EArnstadt — 51.46°N, 9.87°EArgilliti di Riva di Solto — 45.80°N, 9.56°ETrossingen — 51.90°N, 11.07°E

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The named rock units Mystriosuchus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Mystriosuchus and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Mystriosuchus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

21 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Mystriosuchus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

9 references

Each of the 12 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Mystriosuchus

Credit
Nobu Tamura
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMystriosuchini through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fraas 1896