| Lanthanosuchoidea Temporal range: Early-Middle Permian, 289–265.8 Ma |
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| Restoration of Lanthanosuchus watsoni | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | †Parareptilia |
| Order: | †Procolophonomorpha |
| Clade: | †Hallucicrania |
| Superfamily: |
†Lanthanosuchoidea Ivachnenko, 1980 |
| Subgroups | |
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.
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.
Feeserpeton
Lanthanosuchus