Their analysis found support for a diapsid clade containing " Eunotosaurus ", " Pappochelys ", " Odontochelys ", and turtles, and placed this clade within Lepidosauromorpha.
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It is morphologically intermediate between the definite stem-turtle " Odontochelys " from the Late Triassic of China and " Eunotosaurus ", a reptile from the Middle Permian of South Africa.
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""'Eunotosaurus " "'is an extinct genus of reptile, possibly a close relative of turtles, from the late Middle Permian ( Capitanian stage ) Karoo Supergroup of South Africa.
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However, with the inclusion of " Eunotosaurus " and the Late Triassic stem turtle " Proganochelys ", the resulting phylogenetic tree placed turtles outside Diapsida in a position similar to turtle's original placement as parareptiles.
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In 2015, Schoch and Sues incorporated " Pappochelys ", " Eunotosaurus ", and " Odontochelys " into a phylogenetic analysis along with parareptiles, turtles, and many other reptilian taxa to elucidate their relationships.
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Of the reptiles that most closely resemble " Pappochelys ", " Eunotosaurus " was originally classified as a parareptile and " Odontochelys " has always been classified as a stem-turtle ( stem-turtles are taxa more closely related to turtles than they are to any other living reptile group, but are not themselves turtles ).
