| Lepidosauromorphs | |
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| Skull of Sophineta cracoviensis | |
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| Collage of five lepidosaurs. From top left to right: Sphenodon punctatus, Dendroaspis polylepis, Iguana iguana, Smaug breyeri and Malayopython reticulatus. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Diapsida |
| Clade: | Neodiapsida |
| Clade: | Sauria |
| Clade: | Lepidosauromorpha Benton, 1983 |
| Subgroups | |
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see text. | |
| Synonyms | |
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The Lepidosauromorphs are a large group of reptiles. It includes all diapsids closer to lizards than to archosaurs.
The only living sub-group is the Lepidosauria: lizards, snakes, and the tuatara.
The most important fossil group, the Sauropterygia, includes the plesiosaurs.