Opisthodonts Temporal range:
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Priosphenodon, a large eilenodontine opisthodont | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Rhynchocephalia |
Suborder: | Sphenodontia |
Clade: | †Opisthodontia Apesteguia & Novas, 2003 |
Genera | |
Opisthodontia is a proposed clade of sphenodontian reptiles, uniting Opisthias from the Late Jurassic-earliest Cretaceous of Europe and North America with the Eilenodontinae, a group of herbivorous sphenodontians known from the Late Triassic to Late Cretaceous.