Opisthodontia (reptile)

Opisthodonts
Temporal range: Late Triassic–Late Cretaceous
Priosphenodon, a large eilenodontine opisthodont
Scientific classification Edit this 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.