Lanthanosuchoidea

Lanthanosuchoids
Temporal range: Late Carboniferous - Late Permian,
Restoration of Lanthanosuchus watsoni
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Parareptilia
Order: Procolophonomorpha
Node: Ankyramorpha
Superfamily: Lanthanosuchoidea
Ivachnenko, 1980
Subgroups

Lanthanosuchoidea is an extinct superfamily of ankyramorph parareptiles from the middle Pennsylvanian to the middle Guadalupian epoch (Moscovian - 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.

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