it is also the only surviving TRUE diapsid

Yeah I know Henry the Tuatara

ye

I've got a zoology degree from NZ so I know my native species quite well

tuatara scull

clearly a diapsid

(diapsid means it has 2 temporal holes on each side)

Yes

I know

komoto dragon

it lost the bottom bridge of the bottom apsid

Yeah I know, this change was also present in transition species from lizard to mammals

true

As well as a change in gait

And tooth changes

turtles are strictly anapsids but they evolved from diapsids

the 2 apsids closed

in the fossil records of turtles we see signs of one of the apsids

But you can't use a single retained feature to classify the species as being one thing or the other

You can use them to trace origins

wich is the point i made

turtles arent strictly diapsids but are still clasified as one in phylogenic clasification

You said birds are reptiles, that's not true. Birds are birds, birds evolved from dinos, but they are birds.

yes

they are also reptiles

They are reptiles in the same way we are

false

not in phylogenic clasifification

it was a few more branches earlier where you get mamals and a goup that has reptiles

https://askabiologist.asu.edu/questions/birds-dinosaurs-reptiles

Read the whole thing

"while the Linnaean system is more useful for understanding how animals live."

im guessing your going to point to that

yes i agree

in ways

but that was never my point

it literaly says what i was saying