 The name Sauria was coined by James Macartney (1802); it was the Latinisation of the French name "Sauriens", coined by Alexandre Brongniart (1800) for an order of reptiles in the classification proposed by the author, containing lizards and crocodilians, later discovered not to be each other's closest relatives.Later authors used the term "Sauria" in a more restricted sense, i.e.as a synonym of Lacertilia, a suborder of Squamata that includes all lizards but excludes snakes.