# Teleosauroidea

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{{Short description|Extinct superfamily of reptiles}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = [Early Jurassic](/source/Early_Jurassic)-[Early Cretaceous](/source/Early_Cretaceous), {{fossilrange|183|130}}
| image = Plagiophthalmosuchus lithograph.jpg
| image_caption = ''[Plagiophthalmosuchus](/source/Plagiophthalmosuchus)''
| taxon = Teleosauroidea
| authority = [Geoffroy](/source/%C3%89tienne_Geoffroy_Saint-Hilaire), 1831
| subdivision_ranks = Subgroups
| subdivision_ref = <ref name=Johnson2020>{{cite journal |last1=Johnson |first1=Michela M. |last2=Young |first2=Mark T. |last3=Brusatte |first3=Stephen L. |title=The phylogenetics of Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia) and implications for their ecology and evolution |journal=PeerJ |date=2020 |volume=8 |article-number=e9808 |doi=10.7717/peerj.9808 |language=en |issn=2167-8359|doi-access=free |pmid=33083104 |pmc=7548081 }}</ref>
| subdivision = * {{Extinct}}''[Plagiophthalmosuchus](/source/Plagiophthalmosuchus)''?<ref name=Youngetal2024/>
* {{Extinct}}[Machimosauridae](/source/Machimosauridae)
* {{Extinct}}[Teleosauridae](/source/Teleosauridae)
}}

'''Teleosauroidea''' is an extinct superfamily of [thalattosuchia](/source/thalattosuchia)n crocodyliforms living from the [Early Jurassic](/source/Early_Jurassic) to the [Early Cretaceous](/source/Early_Cretaceous).<ref name=Johnson2020/> It is phylogenetically defined by Mark T. Young and colleagues in 2024 in the ''[PhyloCode](/source/PhyloCode)'' as "the largest [clade](/source/clade) within Thalattosuchia containing ''[Teleosaurus cadomensis](/source/Teleosaurus_cadomensis)'', but not ''[Metriorhynchus brevirostris](/source/Metriorhynchus_brevirostris)''".<ref name=Youngetal2024>{{cite journal |doi=10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad165 |title=The history, systematics, and nomenclature of Thalattosuchia (Archosauria: Crocodylomorpha) |date=2024 |last1=Young |first1=Mark T. |last2=Wilberg |first2=Eric W. |last3=Johnson |first3=Michela M. |last4=Herrera |first4=Yanina |last5=De Andrade |first5=Marco Brandalise |last6=Brignon |first6=Arnaud |last7=Sachs |first7=Sven |last8=Abel |first8=Pascal |last9=Foffa |first9=Davide |last10=Fernández |first10=Marta S. |last11=Vignaud |first11=Patrick |last12=Cowgill |first12=Thomas |last13=Brusatte |first13=Stephen L. |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=200 |issue=2 |pages=547–617 |doi-access=free }}</ref> This group contains two main families, the more [piscivorous](/source/piscivorous) and gracile [Teleosauridae](/source/Teleosauridae) and the more macropredatory and robust [Machimosauridae](/source/Machimosauridae).<ref name=Youngetal2024>{{cite journal |doi=10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad165 |title=The history, systematics, and nomenclature of Thalattosuchia (Archosauria: Crocodylomorpha) |date=2024 |last1=Young |first1=Mark T. |last2=Wilberg |first2=Eric W. |last3=Johnson |first3=Michela M. |last4=Herrera |first4=Yanina |last5=De Andrade |first5=Marco Brandalise |last6=Brignon |first6=Arnaud |last7=Sachs |first7=Sven |last8=Abel |first8=Pascal |last9=Foffa |first9=Davide |last10=Fernández |first10=Marta S. |last11=Vignaud |first11=Patrick |last12=Cowgill |first12=Thomas |last13=Brusatte |first13=Stephen L. |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=200 |issue=2 |pages=547–617 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

==Phylogeny==
The cladogram below is from a 2020 study by Michela Johnson and colleagues on the phylogenetic relationships of teleosauroids.<ref name=Johnson2020/>

{{clade| style=font-size:85%;line-height:80%
|label1='''[Teleosauroidea](/source/Teleosauroidea)'''
|1={{clade
|1=''[Plagiophthalmosuchus gracilirostris](/source/Plagiophthalmosuchus_gracilirostris)''
|2={{clade
|label1=[Teleosauridae](/source/Teleosauridae)
|1={{clade
|1=''[Indosinosuchus kalasinensis](/source/Indosinosuchus)''
|2={{clade
|1={{clade
|1=Chinese teleosauroid (IVPP V 10098)
|2=''[Mystriosaurus laurillardi](/source/Mystriosaurus)'' }}
|2={{clade
|1=''[Indosinosuchus potamosiamensis](/source/Indosinosuchus)''
|2={{clade
|label1=[Teleosaurinae](/source/Teleosaurinae)
|1={{clade 
|1=''[Platysuchus multiscrobiculatus](/source/Platysuchus)''
|2=''[Teleosaurus cadomensis](/source/Teleosaurus)'' }}
|label2=[Aeolodontinae](/source/Aeolodontinae)
|2={{clade    
|1=''[Mycterosuchus nasutus](/source/Mycterosuchus)'' 
|2={{clade
|1=''[Aeolodon priscus](/source/Aeolodon)''
|2={{clade
|1=''[Sericodon jugleri](/source/Sericodon)''
|2=''[Bathysuchus megarhinus](/source/Bathysuchus)''}}}}}}}}}}}}}}
|label2=[Machimosauridae](/source/Machimosauridae)
|2={{clade
|1=''[Macrospondylus bollensis](/source/Macrospondylus_bollensis)''
|2={{clade
|1=''[Clovesuurdameredeor stephani](/source/Clovesuurdameredeor_stephani)''
|2={{clade
|1=''[Charitomenosuchus leedsi](/source/Charitomenosuchus)''
|2={{clade
|1=''[Seldsienean megistorhynchus](/source/Seldsienean_megistorhynchus)''
|2={{clade
|1=''[Deslongchampsina larteti](/source/Deslongchampsina_larteti)''
|label2=[Machimosaurinae](/source/Machimosaurinae)
|2={{clade
|1={{clade
|1=[''Proexochokefalos'' cf. ''bouchardi''](/source/Proexochokefalos)
|2=''[Proexochokefalos heberti](/source/Proexochokefalos_heberti)''}}
|2={{clade
|1=''[Neosteneosaurus edwardsi](/source/Neosteneosaurus_edwardsi)''
|2=''[Andrianavoay baroni](/source/Andrianavoay_baroni)''
|label3=[Machimosaurini](/source/Machimosaurini)
|3={{clade
|1=''[Lemmysuchus obtusidens](/source/Lemmysuchus_obtusidens)''
|2=''[Yvridiosuchus boutilieri](/source/Yvridiosuchus_boutilieri)''
|3={{clade
|1=''[Machimosaurus buffetauti](/source/Machimosaurus_buffetauti)''
|2={{clade
|1=''[Machimosaurus mosae](/source/Machimosaurus_mosae)''
|2={{clade
|1=''[Machimosaurus rex](/source/Machimosaurus_rex)''
|2=''[Machimosaurus hugii](/source/Machimosaurus_hugii)''
}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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