Monstersauria

Monstersauria; Temporal range:
	Gila monster, Heloderma suspectum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Infraorder:	Neoanguimorpha
Clade:	Monstersauria; Norell and Gao, 1997
Subgroups
	†Palaeosaniwa?; †Asprosaurus?; †Chianghsia?; †Gobiderma?; †Morohasaurus?; †Paraderma?; †Primaderma?; †Estesia?; †Eurheloderma?; †Lowesaurus?; Helodermatidae;

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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