Megachirella enters a combined-data squamate model
High-resolution CT of the only known skeleton added new anatomical scorings to a combined morphology–molecule matrix that recovered Megachirella on the squamate stem.
Represented range247.2–242 Ma
RegionsDont Formation, Dolomites, northern Italy; combined-data phylogenetic model
CladesPan-Squamata · Megachirella wachtleri
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CT anatomy of the only known Megachirella specimen PZO 628 was scored in a combined morphology–molecule analysis that recovered it on the squamate stem; the same model's divergence estimates are not fossil observations or crown-Squamata FADs.