Infraorder Platynota Baur 1890
Parent taxon: Anguiformes according to J. L. Conrad 2006
See also Borsuk-Bialynicka 1984, Cernansky et al. 2015, Estes 1964, Evans 1994, Evans et al. 2006, Kuhn 1946, Kuhn 1966, Lingham-Soliar 1995, McDowell and Bogert 1954, Miller 1967, Norell et al. 2007, Nydam 2000, Nydam 2002, Welles and Gregg 1971, Wiffen 1980 and Wiffen 1990
Sister taxa: Anguioidea, Cnodontosaurus, Scincoidae
Subtaxa: Cemeterius Colpodontosaurus Kaganaias Litakis Parasaniwa Parviderma Shinisauria Shinisauridae Varanoidea