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Squamata (squamates)

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Squamata was named by Oppel (1811). It is extant. It was considered monophyletic by Estes et al. (1988), Konishi et al. (2012), Evans and Wang (2012).

It was reranked as the superorder Squamata by Osborn (1903), Osborn (1904), Hay (1930), Sullivan (1986); it was synonymized subjectively with Lyognatha by Jaekel (1910); it was synonymized subjectively with Lyognathi by Jaekel (1911); it was synonymized subjectively with Saurophidia by Perrier (1928); it was misspelled as Squamati by Quenstedt (1882), Woodward (1898), Hay (1902), Osborn (1903), Andrews (1906), Lambe (1908), Williston (1917), Swinton (1934), Roxo (1937), Kuhn (1946), Huene (1954), Kuhn (1966), Schatzinger (1980), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Holman (1982), Gardiner (1982), Carroll (1982), Stritzke (1983), Benton (1985), Estes et al. (1988), Carroll (1988), Holman et al. (1991), Lingham-Soliar (1995), Gao and Fox (1996), Frank and Ramus (1996), Peng et al. (2001), Sepkoski (2002), Meyer and Zardoya (2003), Krause et al. (2003), Martinelli and Forasiepi (2004), Datta and Ray (2006), Venczel and Stiuca (2008), Komishi and Caldwell (2009), Böhme (2010), Konishi and Caldwell (2011), Fernicola and Albino (2012), Konishi et al. (2012), Evans and Wang (2012), Palci et al. (2013), Garcia et al. (2015), González Ruiz et al. (2019), Strong et al. (2020); it was reranked as the unranked clade Squamata by Fitzinger (1826), Norell and de Queiroz (1991), Nicholls and Meckert (2002), Kiernan and Ebersole (2023), de Carvalho and Santucci (2023), Plasse et al. (2024), Rivera-Sylva et al. (2024).

It was assigned to Monopnoa by Fitzinger (1826); to Sauri by Quenstedt (1882); to Diapsida by Osborn (1903), Osborn (1903), Osborn (1904); to Monotreta by Hay (1930); to Parapsida by Williston (1917), Roxo (1937); to Neosauromorpha by Huene (1954); to Lepidosauria by Thurmond and Jones (1981), Carroll (1982), Stritzke (1983), Sullivan (1986); to Lepidosauria by Kuhn (1966), Benton (1985), Carroll (1988), Gao and Fox (1996), Peng et al. (2001), Meyer and Zardoya (2003), Krause et al. (2003), Martinelli and Forasiepi (2004), Datta and Ray (2006), Evans and Wang (2012); to Lepidosauria by Gardiner (1982), Estes et al. (1988), Norell and de Queiroz (1991), Nicholls and Meckert (2002), Rivera-Sylva et al. (2024); and to Reptilia by Woodward (1898), Hay (1902), Andrews (1906), Lambe (1908), Swinton (1934), Kuhn (1946), Schatzinger (1980), Holman (1982), Holman et al. (1991), Lingham-Soliar (1995), Frank and Ramus (1996), Sepkoski (2002), Venczel and Stiuca (2008), Komishi and Caldwell (2009), Böhme (2010), Konishi and Caldwell (2011), Fernicola and Albino (2012), Konishi et al. (2012), Palci et al. (2013), Garcia et al. (2015), González Ruiz et al. (2019), Strong et al. (2020), Kiernan and Ebersole (2023), de Carvalho and Santucci (2023), Plasse et al. (2024).

Sister taxa
Araeoscelomorphi, Thalattosauromorphi