After Marsicano, 1999, Yates & Warren, 2000, Warren & Marsicano, 2000 and Demiani & Kitching, 2003
<==o †Brachyopomorpha Warren & Marsicano, 2000 |-- †Bothriceps australis Huxley, 1859 `--o †Brachyopoidea (Lydekker, 1885) sensu Broom, 1915 |--o †Chigutisauridae Rusconi, 1949 [1951?] | |?- †Koolasuchus cleelandi Warren, Vickers-Rich, & Rich, 1997 | |-- †Keratobrachyops australis Warren, 1981 | `--+--+-- †Siderops kehli Warren & Hutchinson, 1983 | | `--o †Pelorocephalus Cabrera, 1944 [Chigutisaurus Rusconi, 1948b, Icanosaurus rectifrons Rusconi, 1951] | | |-- †P. mendozensis Cabrera, 1944 [Chigutisaurus tunuyanensis Rusconi, 1948b] | | |-- †P. tenax (Rusconi, 1949) [Chigutisaurus tenax Rusconi, 1949] | | |-- †P. cacheutensis (Rusconi, 1953) [Chigutisaurus cacheutensis Rusconi, 1953] | | `?- †P. sp. [P. ischigualastensis Bonaparte, 1975] | `--+-- †Compsocerops cosgriffi Sengupta, 1995 | `-- †Kuttycephalus triangularis Sengupta, 1995 `--o †Brachyopidae (Lydekker, 1885) sensu Broom, 1915 |?- †Gobiops desertus Shishkin, 1991 |?- †Platycepsion wilkinsoni |?- †Notobrachyops picketti |?-o †Batrachosuchoides Shishkin, 1966 | |-- †B. lacer Shishkin, 1966 | `-- †B. impressus Novikov & Shishkin, 1994 |--+-- †Sinobrachyops placenticephalus Dong, 1985 | `--+-- †Xenobrachyops allos (Howie, 1972) | `-- †Brachyops laticeps Owen, 1855 `--+-- †Batrachosuchus henwoodi `--+-- †Banksiops townrowi (Cosgriff, 1974) [Blinasaurus] `--+--+-- †Vigilius wellesi Warren & Marsicano, 2000 [Hadrokkosaurus bradyi, in partim] | `-- †Vanastega plurinidens Damiani & Kitching, 2003 `--o †Batrachosaurus |-- †B. browni `-- †B. watsoni
Brachyopoidea incertae sedis:
†Austropelor wedleyi Longman, 1941
†Blinasaurus
†Hadrokkosaurus bradyi Welles & Estes, 1969
†Rileymillerus cosgroffi Bolt & Chatterjee, 2000 [tentatively]
†Trucheosaurus [Bothriceps]
Brachyopoidea nomen dubia:
†Austrobrachyops jenseni Colbert & Cosgriff, 1974 [a dicynodont fragment?]
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