Eureptilia

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Eureptiles
Temporal range:
Ma
Labidosaurikos meachami, an early eureptilian of the family Captorhinidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Eureptilia
Olson, 1947
Subgroups
Skull of Hylonomus, a eureptile and one of the oldest known reptiles

Eureptilia ("true reptiles") is one of the two major subgroups of the

Cotylosauria
".

Eureptilia is characterized by the

insectivorous.[2] One primitive eureptile, the Late Carboniferous "protorothyrid" Anthracodromeus, is the oldest known climbing tetrapod.[3]
Diapsids were the only eureptilian clade to continue beyond the end of the Permian.

Classification

Eureptilia was defined as a stem-based

Procolophon trigoniceps, by Tsuji and Müller (2009).[4] The cladogram here was modified after Muller and Reisz (2006):[5]

Reptilia
 

References

  1. PMID 28417061
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  2. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01431.x
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  3. ISSN 2296-6463
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  4. ^ Benton, M. J., Donoghue, P. C., Asher, R. J., Friedman, M., Near, T. J., & Vinther, J. (2015). "Constraints on the timescale of animal evolutionary history." Palaeontologia Electronica, 18.1.1FC; 1-106; palaeo-electronica.org/content/fc-1
  5. doi:10.1080/10635150600755396

External links
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