Plagiosauroidea
Plagiosauroidea is a superfamily of stereospondyl temnospondyls that lived in the Triassic period.

ДиБгд at Russian Wikipedia · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StereospondyliPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Temnospondyli
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Temnospondyli
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Temnospondyli
- Environment
- brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda
Time the record covers
At most 22 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 205.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Plagiosauroidea on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
1 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Plagiosauroidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Plagiosauroidea and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Plagiosauroidea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
6 taxa- Coelacanthidae1 site
- Cyclotosaurus1 site
- Palaeonisciformes1 site
- Phytosauria1 site
- Ptychoceratodus szechuanensis1 site
- Semionotidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Plagiosauroidea, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Plagiosauroidea
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- ДиБгд at Russian Wikipedia
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Plagiosauroidea was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itStereospondyli through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Abel 1919