Teleosauroidea Temporal range: Early Jurassic-Early Cretaceous, | |
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Plagiophthalmosuchus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Suborder: | † Thalattosuchia |
Parvorder: | † Neothalattosuchia |
Superfamily: | † Teleosauroidea Geoffroy, 1831 |
Subgroups [1] | |
Teleosauroidea is an extinct superfamily of thalattosuchian crocodyliforms living from the Early Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous. [1] It is phylogenetically defined by Mark T. Young and colleagues in 2024 in the PhyloCode as "the largest clade within Thalattosuchia containing Teleosaurus cadomensis , but not Metriorhynchus brevirostris ". [2] This group contains two main families, the more piscivorous and gracile Teleosauridae and the more macropredatory and robust Machimosauridae. [2]
The cladogram below is from a 2020 study by Michela Johnson and colleagues on the phylogenetic relationships of teleosauroids. [1]