Plagiosauroidea
Extinct superfamily of amphibians
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Plagiosauroidea is a superfamily of stereospondyl temnospondyls that lived in the Triassic period.
| Plagiosauroidea Temporal range: Early - Late Triassic | |
|---|---|
| Life restoration of Plagiosaurus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Tetrapoda |
| Order: | †Temnospondyli |
| Suborder: | †Stereospondyli |
| Clade: | †Trematosauria |
| Superfamily: | †Plagiosauroidea Abel, 1919 |
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.