Isodontosaurus [SEP] parent taxon
Isodontosaurus
Isodontosaurus is an extinct genus of iguanian lizard from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. The type species is Isodontosaurus gracilis. "Isodontosaurus" is part of an extinct group of Late Cretaceous iguanians called Gobiguania, which is currently thought to be endemic to Mongolia.
External links.
- Isodontosaurus on paleobackup.nceas.ucsb.edu
- Isodontosaurus on paleofile.com
and the living clade Acrodonta, which includes agamids and chameleons. It is a stem-based taxon and one of two major clades within Iguania, the other being Pleurodonta. Below is a cladogram from Daza "et al." (2012) showing this phylogeny:
Other analyses place Priscagamidae outside Iguania altogether, resulting in a Chamaeleontiformes that only includes "Isodontosaurus" and Acrodonta. Below is a cladogram from Conrad (2015) with this phylogeny: