Parareptilia ("near-reptiles") is an extinct subclass or clade of basal sauropsids/reptiles, typically considered the sister taxon to Eureptilia (the group...

Gauthier et al. (1988) placed Mesosauridae in a group called Parareptilia. Parareptilia means "at the side of reptiles" and was placed outside the clade...

and Parareptilia ("next to reptiles"). Eureptilia encompasses all living reptiles (including birds), as well as various extinct groups. Parareptilia is...

descendants". A cladistic analysis by Laurin and Piñeiro (2017) recovers Parareptilia as part of Diapsida, with pareiasaurs, turtles, millerettids, and procolophinoids...

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)...

the two major subgroups of the clade Sauropsida, the other one being Parareptilia. Eureptilia includes Diapsida (the clade containing all modern reptiles...

Later, the consensus shifted towards Testudinata's placement within Parareptilia, another "anapsid" clade. Analysis of fossil data has shown that turtles...

important' Boreoeutheria Superorder super, 'above' Euarchontoglires, Parareptilia Grandorder grand, 'large' Euarchonta Mirorder mirus, 'wonderful, strange'...

Mesosauridae phylogeny places the group as either the basal most clade within Parareptilia or the basal most clade within Sauropsida (with the latter being the...

resembling long-snouted lizards with newt-like tails either as members of Parareptilia or as a type of Synapsid. Thalattosuchians were marine crocodylomorphs...