Alternative spelling: Brachiopoidea
Parent taxon: Stereospondyli according to R. R. Schoch 2013
See also Carroll 1988, Hart et al. 2023, Olson and Lammers 1976, Warren and Damiani 1999, Warren and Marsicano 2000 and Yates and Warren 2000
Sister taxa: Arachana, Boreosaurus, Boreosaurus thorslundi, Brachyopomorpha, Capulomala, Chinlestegophis, Cryobatrachus, Cryobatrachus kitchingi, Diadetognathus, Diadetognathus varvicensis, Kryostega, Labyrinthodon panchetensis, Laccocephalus, Laccocephalus insperatus, Mastodonsaurus andriani, Mastodonsaurus fuerstenberganus, Mastodonsaurus indicus, Mastodonsaurus meyeri, Pachygonia, Pachygonia incurvata, Peltobatrachus, Plagiosauroidea, Rhinesuchidae, Rhytidostea, Superstes
Subtaxa: Austropelor Austropelor wadleyi Brachyopidae Chigutisauridae Hadrokkosaurus Plagiosauridae
Type: Brachyops
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections)
• Miocene of Italy (1)
• Cretaceous of Australia (6), China (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Thailand (1)
• Jurassic of Australia (2), China (4), Kyrgyzstan (5), Lesotho (1), Mongolia (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (3)
• Triassic of Algeria (1), Antarctica (2), Argentina (3), Australia (15), Brazil (2), France (2), Germany (22), Greenland (4), India (2), Kazakhstan (2), Luxembourg (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (14), South Africa (8), Sweden (1), United States (2: Arizona), Zambia (1)
• Permian to Triassic of Australia (1)
Total: 113 collections including 129 occurrences