†family Anteosauridae Boonstra 1954 (therapsid)
Osteichthyes - Therapsida - Anteosauridae
Parent taxon: Anteosauria according to C. F. Kammerer 2011
See also Battail and Surkov 2000, Boonstra 1969, Carroll 1988, Cheng and Ji 1996, Ivakhnenko 2003, Kemp 1982 and Li and Sun 2008
Sister taxa: Admetophoneus, Admetophoneus kargalensis, Archaeosuchus, Archaeosuchus cairncrossi, Eccasaurus, Eccasaurus priscus
Subtaxa: Anteosaurinae Archaeosyodon Chthomaloporus Microsyodon Sinophoneus Syodontinae
Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Brazil (2 collections), China (1), Kazakhstan (1), the Russian Federation (17), South Africa (19), Zambia (1)
Total: 41 collections including 49 occurrences