Biology:Plagiosauroidea

Short description: Extinct superfamily of amphibians

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

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

A clade was in 2000 defined as Laidleria + Plagiosauridae.

References

• Warren (1998), Laidleria uncovered: a redescription of Laidleria gracilis Kitching (1957), a temnospondyl from the Cynognathus Zone of South Africa. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 122: 167–185.
• 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.

Wikidata ☰ Q3824882 entry