Kingdom Animalia Clade †Parareptilia Phylum Chordata Order Procolophonomorpha | Class Reptilia Clade †Hallucicrania Rank Superfamily | |
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Similar Colobomycter, Delorhynchus, Owenettidae | ||
Lanthanosuchoidea is an extinct superfamily of ankyramorph parareptiles from the late Cisuralian to the middle Guadalupian epochs (Artinskian - Wordian stages) of Europe, North America and Asia. It was named by the Russian paleontologist Ivachnenko in 1980, and it contains two families Acleistorhinidae and Lanthanosuchidae.
Phylogeny
Lanthanosuchoidea is a node-based taxon defined in 1997 as "the most recent common ancestor of Lanthanosuchus, Lanthaniscus, and Acleistorhinus". The cladogram below follows the topology from a 2011 analysis by Ruta et al.
The cladogram below follows the topology from a 2016 analysis by MacDougall et al.
References
Lanthanosuchoidea Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA