 Excluded taxa are shown in upper case on the cladogram.In the 13th century, lizards were recognized in Europe as part of a broad category of "reptiles" that consisted of a miscellany of egg-laying creatures, including "snakes, various fantastic monsters, […], assorted amphibians, and worms", as recorded by Vincent of Beauvais in his "Mirror of Nature".The seventeenth century saw changes in this loose description.