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Sauropsida
Sauropsida Sau*rop"si*da, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a lizard + ? appearance.] (Zo["o]l.) A comprehensive group of vertebrates, comprising the reptiles and birds.

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- synapsids are more closely related to mammals than to any modern reptile. Sauropsids, on the other hand, include all amniotes more closely related to modern...
- 318 million years ago during the Late Carboniferous period, when synapsids and sauropsids diverged, but was subsequently merged with the orbit in early mammals...
- forms found in all vertebrates and harder, derived forms found only among sauropsids (reptiles and birds). Spider silk is classified as keratin, although production...
- Carboniferous period and further diverged into two groups, namely the sauropsids (including all reptiles and birds) and synapsids (including mammals and...
- exploitation of the land by certain tetrapods. These included the earliest sauropsid reptiles (Hylonomus), and the earliest known "pelycosaur" synapsids (Archaeothyris)...
- amniotes including synapsids (the clade to which modern mammals belong) and sauropsids (which include modern reptiles and birds) during the late Carboniferous...
- Archosauria (lit. 'ruling reptiles') is a clade of diapsid sauropsid tetrapods, with birds and crocodilians being the only living representatives. Archosaurs...
- vertebrae in mammals) lie caudal (toward the tail) of cervical vertebrae. In sauropsid species, the cervical vertebrae bear cervical ribs. In lizards and saurischian...
- Mammals Sauropsids (reptiles, birds)...
- which would later include the common ancestor of the mammals; and the sauropsids, which now include turtles, lizards, snakes, crocodilians and dinosaurs...