Plagiosauroidea is a superfamily of stereospondyl temnospondyls that lived in the Triassic period.
| Plagiosauroidea Temporal range: Early - Late Triassic
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| Life restoration of Plagiosaurus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Temnospondyli |
| Suborder: | †Stereospondyli |
| Clade: | †Trematosauria |
| Superfamily: | †Plagiosauroidea Abel, 1919 |
This clade was defined as Laidleria + Plagiosauridae by Yates and Warren (2000).
References
edit- 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.
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