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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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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)...
- descendants". A
cladistic analysis by
Laurin and Piñeiro (2017)
recovers Parareptilia as part of Diapsida, with pareiasaurs, turtles, millerettids, and procolophinoids...
- 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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resembling long-snouted
lizards with newt-like
tails either as
members of
Parareptilia or as a type of Synapsid.
Thalattosuchians were
marine crocodylomorphs...
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Permian of Niger—IX. The
appendicular skeleton of
Bunostegos akokanensis (
Parareptilia: Pareiasauria)".
Journal of
Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (6): e994746...
- important'
Boreoeutheria Superorder super, 'above' Euarchontoglires,
Parareptilia Grandorder grand, 'large'
Euarchonta Mirorder mirus, 'wonderful, strange'...
- Later, the
consensus shifted towards Testudinata's
placement within Parareptilia,
another "anapsid" clade.
Analysis of
fossil data has
shown that turtles...
