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Desmatosuchinae

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Desmatosuchinae
Temporal range: Late Triassic
File:Desmatosuchus, PFNP.jpg
Skeleton of Desmatosuchus
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Desmatosuchinae

Heckert and Lucas, 2000
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Desmatosuchinae is one of the two subfamilies of aetosaurs, the other being Aetosaurinae. It is a stem-based taxon defined as all aetosaurs more closely related to Desmatosuchus than the last common ancestor of Desmatosuchus and Stagonolepis. [1] All synapomorphies that diagnose the clade can be found in the osteoderms. These include tongue-and-groove articulations for lateral plates present in dorsal presacral paramedian plates and large spikes on the lateral cervical, dorsal, and caudal plates.[2]

References

  1. ^ Heckert, A. B. (2000). "Taxonomy, phylogeny, biostratigraphy, biochronology, paleobiogeography, and evolution of the Late Triassic Aetosauria (Archosauria: Crurotarsi)". Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, Teil I, Heft. 11–12: 1539–1587. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  2. '^ Parker, W. G. (2007). "Reassessment of the aetosaur Desmatosuchus' chamaensis with a reanalysis of the phylogeny of the Aetosauria (Archosauria:Pseudosuchia)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 5: 41–68.