Metoposauroidea

{{Short description|Extinct superfamily of temnospondyls}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| name = Metoposauroids

| image = Koskinonodon perfectus.jpg

| image_caption = Life restoration of Anaschisma browni

| fossil_range = Triassic, {{fossil range|237|208}}

| taxon = Metoposauroidea

| authority = Watson, 1919

| subdivision_ranks = Subgroups

|subdivision = *{{extinct}}Callistomordax

• {{extinct}}Rileymillerus?
• {{extinct}}Latiscopidae
• {{extinct}}Metoposauridae

}}

Metoposauroidea is an extinct superfamily of temnospondyls that lived from the Middle to Upper Triassic in North America, Europe and North Africa.Brusatte, S. L., Butler R. J., Mateus O., & Steyer S. J. (2015). A new species of Metoposaurus from the Late Triassic of Portugal and comments on the systematics and biogeography of metoposaurid temnospondyls. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. e912988., 2015: Metoposauroidea includes the families Metoposauridae and Latiscopidae.http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/users/haaramo/Metazoa/Deuterostoma/Chordata/Amphibia/Limnarchia/Metoposauroidea.htm {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070823222057/http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/users/haaramo/Metazoa/Deuterostoma/Chordata/Amphibia/limnarchia/Metoposauroidea.htm |date=2007-08-23 }} Accessed 2007/12/16