Are turtles Parareptilia?
Are turtles Parareptilia? Like many other so-called ‘anapsids’, parareptiles were historically understudied. Interest in their relationships were reinvigorated in the 1990s, when several studies argued that Testudines (turtles and their kin) were members of Parareptilia. Which groups make up clade Sauropsida? The base of Sauropsida forks into two main groups of “reptiles”: Eureptilia (“true reptiles”) […]