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Taxon: Lepidosauria Haeckel, 1866 (reptile)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

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

Current position

Sauria (Clade) McCartney 1802 [Gauthier, Kluge & Rowe 1988]

Ref: R.V. Hill, 2005: fig. 5.

Historical positions

*Tetrapoda* ([unranked]) Goodrich, 1930	Ref: N. Iwabe et al., 2005: fig. 1c. [indirect]
*Sauria* (Clade) McCartney 1802 [Gauthier, Kluge & Rowe 1988]	Ref: R.V. Hill, 2005: fig. 5.
*Sauria* (Clade) McCartney 1802 [Gauthier, Kluge & Rowe 1988]	Ref: T. Rowe, 1988: fig. 1.

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

*Diapsida* (Clade) Osborn 1903 [Laurin 1991]		Ref: M. Laurin, 1991: 83 ("lepidosaurs").
*Eosuchia* (Clade) Broom 1914 [Laurin 1991]		Ref: M. Laurin, 1991: 84 ("lepidosaurs").
*Sauria* (Clade) McCartney 1802 [Gauthier, Kluge & Rowe 1988]		Ref: J. Gauthier et al., 1988: 182 ("lepidosaurs").

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

*Archosauromorpha* (Clade) Huene 1946 [Gauthier, Kluge & Rowe 1988]		Ref: J. Gauthier et al., 1988: 182 ("lepidosaurs (s.s.)").
*Archosauromorpha* (Clade) Huene 1946 [Gauthier, Kluge & Rowe 1988] {Laurin 1991}		Ref: M.J. Benton, 2004: 10 (Dilkes, 1997: 528).

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