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Crown clade: Lepidosauria Haeckel 1866 [Gauthier, Estes & de Queiroz 1988], nom. cl. inval. (reptile)
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Concise hierarchy

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

Phylogeny

Crown clade Ref: J. Gauthier et al., 1988a: 34. [implicit]

Defined by the most recent common ancestor (and all its descendants) of

Sphenodon (Genus) Gray, 1831 Ref: J. Gauthier et al., 1988a: 34.
Squamata (Clade) Oppel 1811 [Gauthier, Estes & de Queiroz 1988], nom. cl. inval. Ref: J. Gauthier et al., 1988a: 34 ("squamates").

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], nom. cl. inval. Ref: J. Gauthier et al., 1988c: 182 ("lepidosaurs").
Sauria (Clade) McCartney 1802 [Gauthier, Kluge & Rowe 1988], nom. cl. inval. Ref: M. Laurin, 1991: 88 ("lepidosaurs").

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

Archosauromorpha (Clade) xxxHuene 1946 [Gauthier, Kluge & Rowe 1988] Ref: J. Gauthier et al., 1988c: 182 ("lepidosaurs (s.s.)").
Archosauromorpha (Clade) Huene 1946 [Benton 1985], nom. cl. inval. Ref: M.J. Benton, 2004: 10 (Dilkes, 1997: 528).

Current position

Sauria (Clade) McCartney 1802 [Gauthier, Kluge & Rowe 1988], nom. cl. inval. Ref: R.V. Hill, 2005: fig. 5.

Historical positions

Tetrapoda (Clade) Hatschek & Cori 1896 [Gauthier, Kluge & Rowe 1988] Ref: N. Iwabe et al., 2005: fig. 1c. [indirect]
Sauria (Clade) McCartney 1802 [Gauthier, Kluge & Rowe 1988], nom. cl. inval. Ref: R.V. Hill, 2005: fig. 5.
Sauria (Clade) McCartney 1802 [Gauthier, Kluge & Rowe 1988], nom. cl. inval. Ref: T. Rowe, 1988: fig. 1.
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