Full reference: F. v. Huene. 1956. Paläontologie und Phylogenie der Niederen Tetrapoden [Paleontology and Phylogeny of the Lower Tetrapods]. VEB Gustav Fischer Verlang, Jena 1-716
Parent taxon: Eosauropterygia according to G.-H. Xu et al. 2023
See also Rieppel 1989, Rieppel 1993, Rieppel 1994, Rieppel 1995, Rieppel and Lin 1995, Xu et al. 2022 and Young 1965
Sister taxa: Corosaurus, Cymatosauridae, Dawazisaurus, Diandongosaurus, Hispaniasaurus, Majiashanosaurus, Nothosauridae, Nothosauroidea, Nothosaurus picardi, Pachypleurosauria, Pistosauroidea, Qianxisaurus, Wumengosaurus
Subtaxa: Keichousauridae Pachypleurosauridae
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Triassic of Austria (1 collection), China (13), France (1), Germany (5), Italy (6), the Netherlands (2), Poland (3), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (1), Switzerland (21)
Total: 55 collections including 58 occurrences