Ankylopoda
| Ankylopods | |
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| Proganochelys quenstedti | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Sauria |
| Clade: | Ankylopoda Lyson et al., 2012 |
| Extant subclades | |
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Ankylopoda was a proposed clade that hypothetically contains turtles and lepidosaurs (tuatara, lizards and snakes) and their fossil relatives. This clade was historically supported based on microRNA analysis as well as some cladistic analyses. However, it was strongly contradicted by molecular evidence which supports Archelosauria (the grouping of turtles and archosaurs), and other recent cladistic analyses have supported Archelosauria over Ankylopoda.
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