-
descendants of the last
common ancestor of
squamates and rhynchocephalians.
Lepidosaurs can be
distinguished from
other reptiles via
several traits, such as...
- (birds and crocodilians) and
their fossil relatives, to the
exclusion of
lepidosaurs (the
clade containing lizards,
snakes and the tuatara). The majority...
- ago).
Living lepidosaurs,
which include snakes, lizards, and rhynchocephalians,
occupy a wide
range of
environments and niches. The
lepidosaurs have many...
- by
about 5,700 living
species (excluding
domesticated species). All
lepidosaurs and
turtles have a three-chambered
heart consisting of two atria, one...
- 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...
- turtles, crocodiles, and
dinosaurs and
lepidosaurs. In the Jur****ic,
lizards developed from some
lepidosaurs. In the Cretaceous,
snakes developed from...
-
archosauromorphs (reptiles
closer to
archosaurs than to
lizards or
other lepidosaurs)
appeared in the Permian.
Archosaurs quickly diversified in the aftermath...
-
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...
- some of the
earliest dinosaurs (which
include the
ancestors of birds),
lepidosaurs (the
ancestors of modern-day
snakes and lizards) and
mammaliaforms (ancestors...
-
Lepidosaurs from the
Takli Formation Genus Species Material Location Time
Period Notes Images Gekkonidae Indeterminate Maharashtra Maastrichtian A Gecko...
