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- skull openings (fenestra, or fossae) near the temples. Traditionally, the Anapsida are considered the most primitive subclass of amniotes, the ancestral stock...
- Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct...
- number of primitive Permo-Carboniferous forms previously classified under Anapsida, in the old (no longer recognised) order "Cotylosauria". Eureptilia is...
- Parareptilia was first utilized as a cladistically correct alternative to Anapsida, a term which historically referred to reptiles with solid skulls lacking...
- of crocodiles, dinosaursincluding birds – and allies). Furthermore, Anapsida is rarely considered a valid clade in recent phylogenetic analyses. In...
- List of reptile genera lists the vertebrate class of reptiles by living genus, spanning two subclasses. Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines characterized...
- Synapsida (one opening low on the skull, for the "mammal-like reptiles"), Anapsida (no skull opening, including turtles and their relatives), and Euryapsida...
- little relevance to modern phylogenetic taxonomy. The four types are: Anapsida – No openings. The plesiomorphic ("primitive") condition exemplified by...
- based on major traits and physiology: class Reptilia (reptiles) Subclass Anapsida ("proto-reptiles", possibly including turtles) Subclass Diapsida (majority...
- reptiles. Robert L. Carroll (1988) ranked it as an order in the subclass Anapsida, composed of the following suborders: A paraphyletic Captorhinomorpha,...