-
descendants of the last
common ancestor of
squamates and rhynchocephalians.
Lepidosaurs can be
distinguished from
other reptiles via
several traits, such as...
-
Lepidosaur herbivory describes herbivorous lepidosaurs.
Living non-avian
reptiles form a
paraphyletic group that
consists of over 9,000
species of crocodiles...
- (birds and crocodilians) and
their fossil relatives, to the
exclusion of
lepidosaurs (the
clade containing lizards,
snakes and the tuatara). The majority...
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lepidosauromorphs became extinct by the end of the Tri****ic, the with the
latest non
lepidosaur-lepidosauromorphs
being Marmoretta from the
Middle Jur****ic of Britain...
- The Jur****ic (/dʒʊˈræsɪk/ juu-R****-ik) is a
geologic period and
stratigraphic system that
spanned from the end of the Tri****ic
Period 201.4
million years...
- the time. A
study in 2018
found that Megachirella, an
extinct genus of
lepidosaurs that
lived about 240
million years ago
during the
Middle Tri****ic, was...
-
archosaurs (such as
crocodilians and dinosaurs,
including birds)
rather than
lepidosaurs (such as tuataras, lizards, and snakes).
Archosauromorphs first appeared...
- Cenozoic. One
group of
amniotes diverged into the reptiles,
which includes lepidosaurs,
dinosaurs (which
includes birds), crocodilians, turtles, and extinct...
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Titanoboa (/ˌtaɪtənəˈboʊə/; lit. 'titanic boa') is an
extinct genus of
giant boid (the
family that
includes all boas and anacondas)
snake that
lived during...
-
Lyson and
colleagues (2012)
recovered turtles as the
sister group of
lepidosaurs instead.
Ylenia Chiari and
colleagues (2012)
analyzed 248
nuclear genes...
