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Monotypic taxon: Order †Younginiformes Romer, 1933 (reptile)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia

Phylogeny

Probably Paraphyletic/Ancestral (para) Ref: R.R. Reisz et al., 2011: 3733 ("artificial grouping"); fig. 4.

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

Lepidosauriformes (Clade) Gauthier, Estes & de Queiroz 1988 Ref: J. Gauthier et al., 1988a: 28 ("younginiforms").

Current position

Diapsida (Clade) Osborn 1903 [Gauthier & de Queiroz 2020] Ref: M.J. Benton, 2015: 438. [implicit]

Alternative positions

Neodiapsida (Clade) Benton 1985 Ref: M.J. Benton, 2005: 395; fig. 6.6. [indirect]

Historical positions

Neodiapsida (Clade) Benton 1985 Ref: M.J. Benton, 2005: 395, box 5.1, fig. 6.6.

Number of Subtaxa

2024 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 †1f;2g;1s
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000: 6 Apr 2017 [; †1f;2g]
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