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Archosauria (lit. 'ruling reptiles') is a
clade of
diapsid sauropsid tetrapods, with
birds and
crocodilians being the only
living representatives. Archosaurs...
- Gr****: σούχος (souchos), "crocodile") is one of two
major divisions of
Archosauria,
including living crocodilians and all
archosaurs more
closely related...
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Gauthier used the name
Archosauria to
refer to what is now
called the Archosauriformes; in
modern studies, the name
Archosauria has a more
restricted definition...
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Proterosuchidae and
Archosauria. Phil
Senter (2005)
defined it as the most
exclusive clade containing Proterosuchus and
Archosauria.
Archosauriforms are...
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Reptiles are
tetrapod animals in the
class Reptilia,
comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and
their extinct...
- 2011,
Sterling J.
Nesbitt found phytosaurs to be the
sister taxon of
Archosauria, and
therefore not crocodile-line archosaurs.
Because phytosaurs are...
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Adamanian (Late Tri****ic:
Latest Carnian)
index taxon Stagonolepis (
Archosauria: Aetosauria) and
their biochronological significance".
Journal of Paleontology...
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between crocodile- and bird-line
archosaurs and are the
sister taxon of
Archosauria. The most
recent study retains the
former way of
classifying phytosaurs...
- List of
reptile genera lists the
vertebrate class of
reptiles by
living genus,
spanning two subclasses.
Turtles are
reptiles of the
order Testudines characterized...
- snakes), Rhynchocephalia, Crocodilia, "thecodonts" (paraphyletic
basal Archosauria), non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs, and sauropterygians...