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Plagiosauroidea (disused)

Amphibia - Temnospondyli

Taxonomy
Plagiosauroidea was named by Abel (1919) [nom. transl. ex Plagiosauridae Abel 1919]. It is not extant. Its type is Plagiosaurus. It was considered monophyletic by Schoch (2013).

It was assigned to Stereospondylida by Kuhn (1971); to Temnospondyli by Carroll (1988); to Trematosauria by Yates and Warren (2000); and to Stereospondyli by Schoch (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1919Plagiosauroidea Abel
1971Plagiosauroidea Kuhn p. 8
1988Plagiosauroidea Carroll
2000Plagiosauroidea Yates and Warren pp. 84, 102 fig. 1
2013Plagiosauroidea Schoch

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
RankNameAuthor
—Tetrapoda
classAmphibia
orderTemnospondyli()
—Eutemnospondyli
—Rhachitomi()
—Eryopiformes
—Stereospondylomorpha
—Stereospondyli()
superfamilyPlagiosauroidea
superfamilyPlagiosauroidea

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Superfm. †Plagiosauroidea Abel 1919
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available