Parasuchidae

Parasuchidae is a clade of phytosaurs 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 scurriensis, Parasuchus hislopi, and Mystriosuchus planirostris. It encompasses nearly all phytosaurs, including early Parasuchus-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 planirostris and Angistorhinus grandis.

Parasuchidae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 248.6 Mya to 201.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 250.8 Mya to 174.7 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 387 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 1 of 387 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 387 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 383 of 387 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 387 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 387 occurrences252–250 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences250–247 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences239–236 Mya — about 2 occurrences236–234 Mya — about 11 occurrences234–231 Mya — about 12 occurrences231–229 Mya — about 12 occurrences229–226 Mya — about 25 occurrences226–223 Mya — about 37 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 37 occurrences221–218 Mya — about 37 occurrences218–215 Mya — about 37 occurrences215–213 Mya — about 41 occurrences213–210 Mya — about 40 occurrences210–207 Mya — about 38 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 31 occurrences205–202 Mya — about 17 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 7 occurrences200–197 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences197–194 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–189 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences189–186 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–173 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences248.6 Mya201.4 Mya252 Mya173 Mya

387 occurrences of Parasuchidae 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

387 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

49 formations

Chinle — 34.44°N, 109.46°WChinle — 36.32°N, 106.47°WChinle — 34.94°N, 109.77°WChinle — 35.03°N, 109.83°WChinle — 35.09°N, 109.79°WChinle — 34.53°N, 109.32°WChinle — 35.12°N, 110.55°WChinle — 38.00°N, 111.13°WChinle — 34.83°N, 109.82°WChinle — 34.51°N, 109.36°WChinle — 35.84°N, 111.25°WChinle — 36.09°N, 111.36°WChinle — 36.07°N, 111.34°WChinle — 35.90°N, 111.29°WChinle — 35.65°N, 111.12°WChinle — 35.38°N, 109.37°WChinle — 34.68°N, 109.58°WChinle — 35.02°N, 109.89°WChinle — 34.97°N, 109.98°WChinle — 34.92°N, 109.91°WChinle — 34.82°N, 109.90°WChinle — 34.94°N, 109.74°WChinle — 35.28°N, 109.15°WChinle — 36.00°N, 109.45°WChinle — 35.94°N, 109.54°WChinle — 36.42°N, 109.33°WChinle — 36.45°N, 109.57°WChinle — 36.35°N, 109.47°WChinle — 34.83°N, 109.50°WChinle — 34.40°N, 109.60°WChinle — 36.50°N, 109.42°WChinle — 35.93°N, 111.40°WChinle — 35.87°N, 110.97°WChinle — 36.58°N, 106.83°WChinle — 35.05°N, 109.73°WChinle — 34.90°N, 107.73°WChinle — 36.32°N, 106.43°WChinle — 35.40°N, 108.22°WChinle — 36.26°N, 106.81°WChinle — 36.38°N, 109.57°WChinle — 35.56°N, 106.82°WChinle — 35.60°N, 106.86°WChinle — 36.10°N, 106.20°WRedonda — 34.98°N, 103.33°WRedonda — 34.94°N, 103.43°WRedonda — 34.97°N, 103.46°WRedonda — 35.07°N, 103.63°WRedonda — 35.00°N, 103.67°WLöwenstein — 49.06°N, 8.98°ELöwenstein — 48.08°N, 8.64°ELöwenstein — 48.11°N, 8.69°ELöwenstein — 48.76°N, 9.14°ELöwenstein — 49.10°N, 9.38°ELöwenstein — 48.76°N, 9.21°ELöwenstein — 48.73°N, 9.00°ELöwenstein — 48.58°N, 8.93°ETecovas — 33.43°N, 101.16°WTecovas — 34.98°N, 101.66°WTecovas — 33.61°N, 101.14°WTecovas — 33.58°N, 101.17°WTecovas — 33.42°N, 101.15°WTecovas — 35.37°N, 102.17°WTecovas — 33.67°N, 100.83°WColorado City — 32.17°N, 101.25°WColorado City — 32.18°N, 101.25°WColorado City — 32.82°N, 101.43°WColorado City — 32.13°N, 101.25°WColorado City — 32.00°N, 101.17°WGarita Creek — 35.48°N, 105.88°WGarita Creek — 35.28°N, 104.37°WGarita Creek — 35.35°N, 104.52°WGarita Creek — 35.33°N, 104.33°WBull Canyon — 35.37°N, 103.38°WBull Canyon — 34.98°N, 104.15°WBull Canyon — 34.95°N, 104.68°WBull Canyon — 35.16°N, 103.49°WPopo Agie — 43.54°N, 109.64°WPopo Agie — 43.10°N, 109.15°WPopo Agie — 42.70°N, 108.67°WPopo Agie — 42.80°N, 108.82°WPopo Agie — 43.17°N, 109.18°WPopo Agie — 40.45°N, 109.30°WSanta Rosa — 35.24°N, 105.79°WSanta Rosa — 35.53°N, 105.75°WSanta Rosa — 35.46°N, 105.87°WSanta Rosa — 35.37°N, 105.85°WCooper Canyon — 33.52°N, 101.32°WCooper Canyon — 33.11°N, 101.45°WCooper Canyon — 33.00°N, 101.15°WCooper Canyon — 33.45°N, 101.44°WPassaic — 40.57°N, 75.10°WPassaic — 40.83°N, 74.11°WPassaic — 40.24°N, 75.59°WPassaic — 40.79°N, 74.15°WTimezgadiouine — 31.03°N, 9.01°WTimezgadiouine — 31.07°N, 8.97°WTimezgadiouine — 31.20°N, 9.00°WTimezgadiouine — 30.81°N, 9.10°WSloan Canyon — 36.94°N, 103.15°WSloan Canyon — 36.95°N, 102.26°WSloan Canyon — 36.92°N, 103.50°WSloan Canyon — 36.89°N, 103.35°WHassberge — 49.84°N, 10.48°EHassberge — 50.01°N, 10.67°EPetrified Forest — 36.21°N, 106.62°WPetrified Forest — 34.64°N, 107.48°WPetrified Forest — 35.32°N, 106.31°WLockatong — 40.81°N, 74.02°WLockatong — 40.18°N, 75.31°WLockatong — 40.42°N, 75.06°WTrujillo — 35.00°N, 103.38°WTrujillo — 35.35°N, 104.52°WTrujillo — 32.75°N, 101.47°WTravesser — 36.94°N, 103.15°WTravesser — 36.97°N, 103.21°WCumnock — 35.62°N, 79.10°WCumnock — 35.55°N, 79.25°WCumnock — 35.56°N, 79.29°WArnstadt — 51.46°N, 9.87°EArnstadt — 52.08°N, 10.33°EMaleri — 19.13°N, 79.67°EMaleri — 19.17°N, 79.67°EMaleri — 19.22°N, 79.58°ETiki — 23.93°N, 81.37°EGrès à Avicula contorta — 48.62°N, 6.33°EPekin — 35.56°N, 79.28°WPekin — 35.00°N, 80.08°W

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The named rock units Parasuchidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parasuchidae and its relatives

Late Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

406 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 323 sites for Parasuchidae, and this reads 240 of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

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

146 references

Each of the 387 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. 134 further references are not listed. 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 Parasuchidae

Credit
Park Ranger
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Parasuchidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lydekker 1885