- Source: Plagiosauroidea
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
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.