Parasuchidae

Parasuchidae Temporal range: Carnian - Rhaetian, 245–199.6 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Skull of Machaeroprosopus mccauleyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Crurotarsi
Order:	Phytosauria
Clade:	†Parasuchidae Lydekker, 1885
Subgroups
Arganarhinus Ebrachosuchus Paleorhinus Parasuchus Wannia Mystriosuchinae Leptosuchomorpha

Parasuchidae is a clade of phytosaurs more derived than Diandongosuchus.

Parasuchids have been recovered from Late Triassic deposits in Europe, North America, India, Morocco, Thailand, Brazil, Greenland and Madagascar. In their osteology of Parasuchus, Kammerer et al. (2016) suggested using Parasuchidae to include taxa traditionally included in Phytosauridae as well as Parasuchus-grade taxa. Stocker et al. (2017) utilize the phytosaur classification advocated by Kammerer et al. (2016) by recovering Diandongosuchus as the basalmost phytosaur outside Parasuchidae, noting that Diandongosuchus has a shorter snout than parasuchids.