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Pleurodonta (from Gr****
lateral teeth, is an
clade of
lizards reference to the
position of the
teeth on the jaw) is one of the two
subdivisions of Iguania...
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World arboreal lizards Family Chamaeleonidae –
chameleons Infraorder Pleurodonta –
American arboreal lizards, chuckwallas,
iguanas Family Leiocephalidae...
- they are
recognized as a subfamily, Crotaphytinae,
within the
clade Pleurodonta. They are very fast-moving animals, with long
limbs and tails; some species...
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Cretaceous iguanomorph from
North America and the
origin of New
World Pleurodonta (Squamata, Iguania)".
Proceedings of the
Royal Society B: Biological...
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their kin (family Iguanidae) of Fiji, are the only
extant members of the
Pleurodonta that are
found outside of the Americas. The
Opluridae family includes...
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supports Leiocephalidae being the most
basal extant member of the
clade Pleurodonta, with it
diverging from the rest of the
suborder as
early as the Late...
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other clade is
called Acrodonta.
Today Pleurodonta and
Acrodonta have a
nearly disjunct distribution -
Pleurodonta is
mostly restricted to the New World...
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Acrodonta Pleurodonta...
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Acrodonta Pleurodonta...
- stem-based
taxon and one of two
major clades within Iguania, the
other being Pleurodonta.
Below is a
cladogram from Daza et al. (2012)
showing this phylogeny:...
