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Plagiosauroidea

Extinct superfamily of amphibians From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Plagiosauroidea is a superfamily of stereospondyl temnospondyls that lived in the Triassic period.

Phylum:Chordata
Clade:Tetrapoda
Order:Temnospondyli
Suborder:Stereospondyli
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Plagiosauroidea
Temporal range: Early - Late Triassic 252.3–201.3 Ma
Life restoration of Plagiosaurus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Tetrapoda
Order: Temnospondyli
Suborder: Stereospondyli
Clade: Trematosauria
Superfamily: Plagiosauroidea
Abel, 1919
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This clade was defined as Laidleria + Plagiosauridae by Yates and Warren (2000).

References

  • Anne Warren (1998). "Laidleria uncovered: a redescription of Laidleria gracilis Kitching (1957), a temnospondyl from the Cynognathus Zone of South Africa". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 122 (1–2): 167–185. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1998.tb02528.x.
  • Yates & Warren (2000), The phylogeny of the 'higher' temnospondyls (Vertebrata: Choanata) and its implications for the monophyly and origins of the Stereospondyli. Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 128: 77–121.


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