Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Plagiosauridae
Full reference: O. Abel. 1919. Die Stämme der Wirbeltiere. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, Leipzig 914 p.
Parent taxon: Brachyopoidea according to R. R. Schoch and A. R. Milner 2014
See also Abel 1919, Carroll 1988, Damiani et al. 2009, Jenkins et al. 2008, Kuhn 1946, Kuhn 1971, Schoch 2013 and Yates and Warren 2000
Sister taxa: Austropelor, Austropelor wadleyi, Brachyopidae, Chigutisauridae, Hadrokkosaurus
Subtaxa: Plagiobatrachus Plagiosaurinae Plagiosterninae Plagiosuchinae Taphrognathus
Type: Plagiosaurus
Ecology: amphibious carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Antarctica (1 collection), Australia (1), Brazil (1), France (2), Germany (22), Greenland (4), Kazakhstan (2), Luxembourg (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (14), Sweden (1)
Total: 51 collections including 63 occurrences