page_title: Mystriosuchus
section_title: Classification
hierarchical_section_title: Mystriosuchus / Classification
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Fossil of Mystriosuchus, an extinct reptile - Took the picture at Museum of Paleontology, Tuebingen
context_page_description: Mystriosuchus is an extinct genus of phytosaur that lived in the Late Triassic in Europe. It was first named by Eberhard Fraas in 1896, and includes three species: M. westphali, M. steinbergeri and the type species, M. planirostris.
context_section_description: Mystriosuchus used to be placed in its own subfamily, Mystriosuchidae, but subsequent cladistic analysis grouped it with other members of Pseudopalatinae, despite having several physical differences from most of the genera in this group. Originally considered to be a freshwater genus, a recent specimen from Northern Italy has shown that some Mystriosuchus specimens lived a completely marine life. In their paper on Parasuchus, Christian Kammerer and colleagues noted that Mystriosuchini has priority over Pseudopalatinae, so synonymized Pseudopalatinae with Mystriosuchini.
  Below is a cladogram from Stocker (2012):
caption: M. westphali skull
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