Plagiosauroidea

Plagiosauroidea Temporal range: Early - Late Triassic 252.3–201.3 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Life restoration of Plagiosaurus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Tetrapoda
Order:	†Temnospondyli
Suborder:	†Stereospondyli
Clade:	†Trematosauria
Superfamily:	†Plagiosauroidea Abel, 1919

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

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.

External links

• Plagiosauroidea at Palaeos.

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