Definition of Diapsids. Meaning of Diapsids. Synonyms of Diapsids

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Definition of Diapsids

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- identified diapsids, the araeoscelidians, appeared about three hundred million years ago during the late Carboniferous period. All diapsids other than...
- though not diapsids in a purely anatomical sense, qualify as members of the clade Diapsida due to their likely diapsid ancestry. Some diapsids, particularly...
- Sauria is the clade of diapsids containing the most recent common ancestor of Archosauria (which includes crocodilians and birds) and Lepidosauria (which...
- re****ignment of synapsids as non-reptiles, and classification of turtles as diapsids. Gauthier 1994 and Laurin and Reisz 1995's definition of Sauropsida defined...
- thus defining Reptilia as a more restricted crown group encomp****ing diapsids and parareptiles (apart from mesosaurs, which he considered to be the most...
- probably better at conserving water than early synapsids because: Modern diapsids (lizards, snakes, crocodilians, birds) excrete uric acid, which can be...
- classification as diapsids. All known diapsids excrete uric acid as nitrogenous waste (uricotelic), and there is no known case of a diapsid reverting to the...
- turtles) and diapsids (all other living reptiles) – and all descendants of that common ancestor. This view of placing turtles outside of diapsids is now outdated...
- archosauromorphs, lepidosauromorphs related to kuehneosaurids, non-saurian diapsids related to weigeltisaurids, or (most recently) basal neodiapsids. When...
- located higher on the skull. The function of the holes in both synapsids and diapsids was to lighten the skull and give room for the jaw muscles to move, allowing...