{{Short description|Extinct superfamily of reptiles}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = Early Jurassic-Early Cretaceous, {{fossilrange|183|130}} | image = Plagiophthalmosuchus lithograph.jpg | image_caption = ''Plagiophthalmosuchus'' | taxon = Teleosauroidea | authority = Geoffroy, 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''?<ref name=Youngetal2024/> * {{Extinct}}Machimosauridae * {{Extinct}}Teleosauridae }}
'''Teleosauroidea''' is an extinct superfamily of thalattosuchian crocodyliforms living from the Early Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous.<ref name=Johnson2020/> It is phylogenetically defined by Mark T. Young and colleagues in 2024 in the ''PhyloCode'' as "the largest clade within Thalattosuchia containing ''Teleosaurus cadomensis'', but not ''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 and gracile Teleosauridae and the more macropredatory and robust 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''' |1={{clade |1=''Plagiophthalmosuchus gracilirostris'' |2={{clade |label1=Teleosauridae |1={{clade |1=''Indosinosuchus kalasinensis'' |2={{clade |1={{clade |1=Chinese teleosauroid (IVPP V 10098) |2=''Mystriosaurus laurillardi'' }} |2={{clade |1=''Indosinosuchus potamosiamensis'' |2={{clade |label1=Teleosaurinae |1={{clade |1=''Platysuchus multiscrobiculatus'' |2=''Teleosaurus cadomensis'' }} |label2=Aeolodontinae |2={{clade |1=''Mycterosuchus nasutus'' |2={{clade |1=''Aeolodon priscus'' |2={{clade |1=''Sericodon jugleri'' |2=''Bathysuchus megarhinus''}}}}}}}}}}}}}} |label2=Machimosauridae |2={{clade |1=''Macrospondylus bollensis'' |2={{clade |1=''Clovesuurdameredeor stephani'' |2={{clade |1=''Charitomenosuchus leedsi'' |2={{clade |1=''Seldsienean megistorhynchus'' |2={{clade |1=''Deslongchampsina larteti'' |label2=Machimosaurinae |2={{clade |1={{clade |1=''Proexochokefalos'' cf. ''bouchardi'' |2=''Proexochokefalos heberti''}} |2={{clade |1=''Neosteneosaurus edwardsi'' |2=''Andrianavoay baroni'' |label3=Machimosaurini |3={{clade |1=''Lemmysuchus obtusidens'' |2=''Yvridiosuchus boutilieri'' |3={{clade |1=''Machimosaurus buffetauti'' |2={{clade |1=''Machimosaurus mosae'' |2={{clade |1=''Machimosaurus rex'' |2=''Machimosaurus hugii'' }}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
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