Teleosauroidea
Extinct superfamily of reptiles
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Teleosauroidea is an extinct superfamily of thalattosuchian crocodyliforms living from the Early Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous.[1] It is phylogenetically defined by Mark T. Young and colleagues in 2024 in the PhyloCode as "the largest clade within Thalattosuchia containing Teleosaurus cadomensis, but not Metriorhynchus brevirostris".[2] This group contains two main families, the more piscivorous and gracile Teleosauridae and the more macropredatory and robust Machimosauridae.[2]
| Teleosauroidea Temporal range: Early Jurassic-Early Cretaceous, | |
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| Plagiophthalmosuchus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Suborder: | †Thalattosuchia |
| Parvorder: | †Neothalattosuchia |
| Superfamily: | †Teleosauroidea Geoffroy, 1831 |
| Subgroups[1] | |
Phylogeny
The cladogram below is from a 2020 study by Michela Johnson and colleagues on the phylogenetic relationships of teleosauroids.[1]
