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Azendohsauridae

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Azendohsauridae is a family of allokotosaurian archosauromorphs that lived during the Middle to Late Triassic period, minimally between 242-215 million years ago. The family was originally named solely for the eponymous Azendohsaurus, marking out its distinctiveness from other allokotosaurs, but as of 2022 the family now includes four other genera: the basal genus Pamelaria, the large horned herbivore Shringasaurus, and two carnivorous genera grouped into the subfamily-level subclade Malerisaurinae, Malerisaurus and Puercosuchus, and potentially also the dubious genus Otischalkia. Most fossils of azendohsaurids have a Gondwanan distribution, with multiple species known from India, across Morocco and Madagascar in Africa and in Brazil in South America, although fossils of malerisaurine azendohsaurids have also been found in the Southwestern United States of North America.