Ankylopoda

For the extinct group of mammals, see Ancylopoda. For the group of dinosaurs, see Ankylosauria.

Ankylopods
Temporal range: Earliest Triassic - Holocene
Proganochelys quenstedti
Scientific classification
(obsolete)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Sauria
(unranked): Ankylopoda
Lyson et al., 2012
Extant subclades

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 morphological cladistic analyses. However, it was strongly contradicted by molecular evidence which supports Archelosauria (the grouping of turtles and archosaurs), as well as some morphological analyses.

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