Monstersauria
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Monstersauria is a clade of anguimorph lizards, defined as all taxa more closely related to Heloderma than Varanus. It includes Heloderma, as well as several extinct genera, such as Estesia, Primaderma and Gobiderma, but this group was found to be polyphyletic in the most recent and complete squamate phylogenetic analysis by Reeder et al. (2015).
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Within Vinony's link graph, Monstersauria is referenced by 30 other articles, and connects out to Iguania, Lanthanotus borneensis and Scincomorpha.
It sits within the topics Anguimorpha, Extant Neogene first appearances and Neogene reptiles.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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Monstersauria is a clade of anguimorph lizards, defined as all taxa more closely related to Heloderma than Varanus. It includes Heloderma, as well as several extinct genera, such as Estesia, Primaderma and Gobiderma, but this group was found to be polyphyletic in the most recent and complete squamate phylogenetic analysis by Reeder et al. (2015).
==Classification==
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