Desmatosuchinae
Desmatosuchinae Temporal range: Late Triassic
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Life Restoration of Desmatosuchus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Order: | †Aetosauria |
Family: | †Stagonolepididae |
Subfamily: | †Desmatosuchinae Heckert and Lucas, 2000 |
Genera | |
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]
Timeline of generic descriptions
References
- ^ Heckert, A. B.; Lucas, S. G. (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.
- '^ 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. doi:10.1017/S1477201906001994.