Plagiosauroidea

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| fossil_range = Early - Late Triassic {{fossil range|252.3|201.3}}

| image = Plagiosaurus DB.jpg

| image_upright = 0.5

| image_caption = Life restoration of Plagiosaurus

| taxon = Plagiosauroidea

| authority = Abel, 1919

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

This clade was defined as Laidleria + Plagiosauridae by Yates and Warren (2000).

References

Warren (1998), Laidleria uncovered: a redescription of Laidleria gracilis Kitching (1957), a temnospondyl from the Cynognathus Zone of South Africa. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 122: 167–185.
Yates & Warren (2000), The phylogeny of the 'higher' temnospondyls (Vertebrata: Choanata) and its implications for the monophyly and origins of the Stereospondyli. Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 128: 77–121.

[https://web.archive.org/web/20101015011106/http://www.palaeos.com/Vertebrates/Units/160Temnospondyli/500.html#Plagiosauroidea Plagiosauroidea at Palaeos.]