Rauisuchidae is a group of large (up to 6 meters or more) predatory
Triassic archosaurs.. There is some disagreement over which genera should be included in the
Prestosuchidae, which in Rauisuchidae, and which in the
Poposauridae, and indeed whether these should even be thought of as separate
families. Rauisuchids occurred throughout much of the Triassic, and may have first occurred in the
Early Triassic if some archosaurian taxa such as
Scythosuchus and
Tsylmosuchus are considered to be within the family.