Lanthanosuchoidea
| Lanthanosuchoids Temporal range: Late Carboniferous - Late Permian,
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| Restoration of Lanthanosuchus watsoni | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | †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.