Doswelliidae

Doswellids; Temporal range: Middle - Late Triassic, Possible Rhaetian records if Vancleavea is a member.
	Life restoration Doswellia kaltenbachi, the most well known dosweliid
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Archosauromorpha
Clade:	Archosauriformes
Clade:	†Proterochampsia
Family:	†Doswelliidae; Weems, 1980
Genera
	†Ankylosuchus; †Doswellia; †Jaxtasuchus; †Litorosuchus?; †Rugarhynchos; †Sphodrosaurus?; †Vancleavea?;

Doswelliidae is an extinct family of carnivorous archosauriform reptiles that lived in North America and Europe during the Middle to Late Triassic period. 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. They may have also been related to the Proterochampsidae, a South American family of crocodile-like archosauriforms.

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