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<blockquote data-quote="Mecheon" data-source="post: 8853229" data-attributes="member: 6801776">If we're really playing the phylogeny game, I'd argue they're somewhere in Synapsidia per their walking style being far more mammal like, lack of feathers that'd put them in the various groups of Therapoda, having fur (We figure some Synapsids had fur, even before mammals proper) and the general close-to-reptile appearance, but wouldn't go any further than that, but this begs the question if the Hexapoda 'six-limbs' thing evolved once or twice.Absolutely Chordata though, they have backbones. Just a Chordata who's somehow managed to get another set of limbs out of it from an ancestor. Per stuff suggesting Linnorms are the ancestor, we can use them as the starting point, which suggests that the ancestral dragon started with just two limbs. Various draconiform lifeforms from there gradually would then pick up additional limbs (or loosing as far as the sea serpent and wyrm lines go)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mecheon, post: 8853229, member: 6801776"] If we're really playing the phylogeny game, I'd argue they're somewhere in Synapsidia per their walking style being far more mammal like, lack of feathers that'd put them in the various groups of Therapoda, having fur (We figure some Synapsids had fur, even before mammals proper) and the general close-to-reptile appearance, but wouldn't go any further than that, but this begs the question if the Hexapoda 'six-limbs' thing evolved once or twice. Absolutely Chordata though, they have backbones. Just a Chordata who's somehow managed to get another set of limbs out of it from an ancestor. Per stuff suggesting Linnorms are the ancestor, we can use them as the starting point, which suggests that the ancestral dragon started with just two limbs. Various draconiform lifeforms from there gradually would then pick up additional limbs (or loosing as far as the sea serpent and wyrm lines go) [/QUOTE]

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