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Parareptilia ("near-reptiles") is an
extinct subclass or
clade of
basal sauropsids/reptiles,
typically considered the
sister taxon to
Eureptilia (the group...
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Gauthier et al. (1988)
placed Mesosauridae in a
group called Parareptilia.
Parareptilia means "at the side of reptiles" and was
placed outside the clade...
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recovered Parareptilia as
deeply nested within Diapsida as the
sister group to Neodiapsida. They
united this
relationship between Parareptilia and Neodiapsida...
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Parareptilia ("next to reptiles").
Eureptilia encomp****es all
living reptiles (including birds), as well as
various extinct groups.
Parareptilia is...
- synapsids, has been
discovered in the
skulls of a
number of
members of
Parareptilia (the
group containing most of
reptiles traditionally referred to as anapsids)...
- the two
major subgroups of the
clade Sauropsida, the
other one
being Parareptilia.
Eureptilia includes Diapsida (the
clade containing all
modern reptiles...
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Boreoeutheria Superorder super, 'above' Euarchontoglires,
Parareptilia Grandorder grand, 'large'
Euarchonta Mirorder mirus, 'wonderful, strange'...
- synapsid-like
openings in the
skull roof of the
skulls of
several members of
Parareptilia,
including lanthanosuchoids, millerettids, bolosaurids, some nycteroleterids...
- relative, to be only very
distantly related to
turtles in the
clade Parareptilia. The
cladogram below follows the most
likely result found by another...
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Mesosauridae phylogeny places the
group as
either the
basal most
clade within Parareptilia or the
basal most
clade within Sauropsida (with the
latter being the...
