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Plagiosauridae
| Description | Plagiosauridae is a clade of temnospondyl amphibians of the Middle to Late Triassic. Deposits of the group are most commonly found in non-marine aquatic depositional environments from central Europe and Greenland, but other remains have been found in Russia, Scandinavia, and possibly Thailand. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiosauridae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||
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| Rank | family | |||||||
| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Amphibia : Plagiosauridae | |||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||
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| Scientific Name | Plagiosauridae | |||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiosauridae |
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Aranetsia genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Gerrothorax genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Megalophthalma genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Melanopelta genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Plagiobatrachus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Plagiorophus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
 Plagiosaurus βgenus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 4 | 216 Ma Late/Upper Triassic | 209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic | |
| Plagioscutum genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Plagiosternum genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Plagiosuchus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
References
| Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
