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===Taxonomy=== {{See also|List of reptiles|List of snakes}} General classification of extinct and living reptiles, focusing on major groups.<ref name=benton2005>{{cite book |last=Benton |first=Michael J. |author-link=Michael J. Benton |year=2005 |title=Vertebrate Palaeontology |edition=3rd |publisher=Blackwell Science |location=Oxford, UK |isbn=978-0-632-05637-8 |url=http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/benton/vertclass.html |access-date=2015-02-15 |archive-date=2008-10-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019121413/http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/benton/vertclass.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=benton2014>{{cite book |last=Benton |first=Michael J. |author-link=Michael J. Benton |year=2014 |title=Vertebrate Palaeontology |edition=4th |publisher=Blackwell Science |location=Oxford, UK |isbn=978-0-632-05637-8}}</ref><!-- Note to editors: the nested infraclasses are as presented in Benton's 4th edition. Infraclass Diapsida contains Infraclass Neodiapsida, which contains infraclasses Archosauromorpha and Lepidosauromorpha, with the latter containing Infraclass Ichthyosauria within an unnamed Infrasubclass --> * '''Reptilia'''/'''[[Sauropsida]]''' **{{extinct}}'''[[Parareptilia]]''' ** '''[[Eureptilia]]''' ***{{extinct}}[[Captorhinidae]] ***'''[[Diapsid]]a''' <!-- note that the multiple nested infraclasses is part of the classification in Benton's 4th edition --> ****{{extinct}}[[Araeoscelidia]] ****'''[[Neodiapsida]]''' *****{{extinct}}[[Drepanosauromorpha]] (placement uncertain) *****{{extinct}}[[Younginiformes]] ([[paraphyletic]]) *****{{extinct}}[[Ichthyosauromorpha]] (placement uncertain) *****{{extinct}}[[Thalattosauria]] (placement uncertain) *****'''[[Sauria]]''' ******'''[[Lepidosauromorpha]]''' *******[[Lepidosauriformes]] ********[[Rhynchocephalia]] (tuatara) ********[[Squamata]] (lizards and snakes) ******{{extinct}}[[Choristodera]] (placement uncertain) ******{{extinct}}[[Sauropterygia]] (placement uncertain) ******'''[[Pantestudines]]''' (turtles and kin, placement uncertain) ******'''[[Archosauromorpha]]''' *******{{extinct}}[[Protorosauria]] (paraphyletic) *******{{extinct}}[[Rhynchosauria]] *******{{extinct}}[[Allokotosauria]] *******[[Archosauriformes]] ********{{extinct}}[[Phytosaur]]ia ********'''[[Archosauria]]''' *********[[Pseudosuchia]] **********[[Crocodilia]] (crocodilians) *********[[Avemetatarsalia]]/[[Ornithodira]] **********{{extinct}}[[Pterosaur]]ia **********[[Dinosaur]]ia ***********{{extinct}}[[Ornithischia]] ***********[[Saurischia]] (including birds ('''[[Bird|Aves]]'''))
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