Doswelliidae

Doswellids
Temporal range: Middle - Late Triassic, 242–220 Ma Possible Rhaetian records if Vancleavea is a member.
Life restoration Doswellia kaltenbachi, the most well known dosweliid
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauromorpha
Clade: Archosauriformes
Clade: †Proterochampsia
Family: †Doswelliidae
Weems, 1980
Genera

Doswelliidae is an extinct family of carnivorous archosauriform reptiles that lived in North America and Europe during the Middle to Late Triassic period.[1] Long represented solely by the heavily-armored reptile Doswellia, the family's composition has expanded since 2011, although two supposed South American doswelliids (Archeopelta and Tarjadia) were later redescribed as erpetosuchids. Doswelliids were not true archosaurs, but they were close relatives and some studies have considered them among the most derived non-archosaurian archosauriforms.[2] They may have also been related to the Proterochampsidae, a South American family of crocodile-like archosauriforms.[3]

  1. ^ Sues, Hans-Dieter; Desojo, Julia B.; Ezcurra, Martín D. (2013-01-01). "Doswelliidae: a clade of unusual armoured archosauriforms from the Middle and Late Triassic". Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 379 (1): 49–58. Bibcode:2013GSLSP.379...49S. doi:10.1144/SP379.13. ISSN 0305-8719. S2CID 129887410.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Archeopelta was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Ezcurra, Martín D. (2016-04-28). "The phylogenetic relationships of basal archosauromorphs, with an emphasis on the systematics of proterosuchian archosauriforms". PeerJ. 4: e1778. doi:10.7717/peerj.1778. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 4860341. PMID 27162705.