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Archelosauria is a
clade grouping turtles and
archosaurs (birds and crocodilians) and
their fossil relatives, to the
exclusion of
lepidosaurs (the clade...
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Archelosauria.
Since Pantestudines may encomp**** the
entire aquatic reptile order Sauropterygia, this
means that
Archosauromorpha (as
Archelosauria)...
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modern taxa,
Lepidosauria can be
considered the
sister taxon to
Archelosauria,
which includes Testudines (turtles), Aves (birds) and
Crocodilia (crocodilians)...
- as more
closely related to
archosaurs than to
lepidosaurs as part of
Archelosauria,
Sauria can be
considered the
crown group of diapsids, or
reptiles in...
- morphology-based
analyses usually do not
support a turtle-archosaur
clade (
Archelosauria),
Bhullar &
Bever (2009)
identified a
laterosphenoid bone,
typical of...
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proportionally shorter legs
makes this less effective. No
extant members of
Archelosauria are
known to be long-distance hunters,
though various bird
species may...
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suggested that they
belong in the
clade Archosauromorpha (also
known as
Archelosauria).
Below are many of the
possible classifications of
Testudines and Testudinata:...
- Pan-Lepidosauria /
Lepidosauromorpha Archelosauria/ Archosauromorpha s. l....
- crocodilians, and in turtles,
which may be
grouped with
archosaurs in
Archelosauria.
Despite being lepidosaurs, as
lizards and
tuatara are,
snakes lack...
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Lepidosauria Rhynchocephalia (tuatara)
Squamata (lizards and snakes)
Archelosauria Testudines (turtles)
Archosauria Crocodilia Dinosauria (dinosaurs) Aves...
