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Sphaeroparkia is basal within the genus thoughparaphyletic.
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S36 ricinus complex is aparaphyleticgroup.
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Some studies consider the family aparaphyleticgroup, representing an evolutionary grade of basal epicynodonts rather than an actual clade.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Also,paraphyleticgroups are involved in evolutionary transitions, the development of the first tetrapods from their ancestors for example.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The former are aparaphyleticassemblage, thus effectively synonymous with the entire order, while the latter can be considered a valid suborder.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Recent research has indicated that ratites are aparaphyleticgroup; tinamous nest within them, and are the sister group of the extinct moa.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Placoderms areparaphyletic, and comprise several distinct outgroups or sister taxa to all living jawed vertebrates, which originated among their ranks.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Plagiaulacida isparaphyletic, representing the more primitive evolutionary grade.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They are probably closely related orparaphyleticto the palaeoscolecids; the relationship between these basal worms is somewhat unresolved.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, the genus as a whole is stronglyparaphyleticand will probably be fragmented once further studies have resolved relationships to a finer detail.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The subfamily is now considered to be aparaphyleticassemblage of basal gavialoids, and therefore not a true clade.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This group seems to beparaphyletichowever, and the present genus is apparently not closely related to most or all of them.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Today this is understood to be an unnatural (paraphyletic) group.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The family is often consideredparaphyleticand has no morphological synapomorphies.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The term does not often appear in classifications today because it isparaphyleticor polyphyletic, and has no phylogenetic meaning.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It indicates that some groups areparaphyleticat family, subfamily and generic levels; other groups are monophyletic and accord well with current taxonomies.
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Living non-avian reptiles form aparaphyleticgroup that consists of over 9,000 species of crocodiles, turtles, and lepidosaurs.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.More recently this grouping has been found to be massivelyparaphyletic(missing closer relatives of its distantly related groups) and split again.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Mesonychidae as currently defined is probablyparaphyleticor polyphyletic.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, the group isparaphyleticand not composed from close relatives.
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