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descendants of the last
common ancestor of
squamates and rhynchocephalians.
Lepidosaurs can be
distinguished from
other reptiles via
several traits, such as...
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Lepidosaur herbivory describes herbivorous lepidosaurs.
Living non-avian
reptiles form a
paraphyletic group that
consists of over 9,000
species of crocodiles...
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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...
- The Jur****ic (/dʒʊˈræsɪk/ juurr-****-ik) is a
geologic period and
stratigraphic system that
spanned from the end of the Tri****ic
Period 201.4
million years...
- (birds and crocodilians) and
their fossil relatives, to the
exclusion of
lepidosaurs (the
clade containing lizards,
snakes and the tuatara). The majority...
- the time. A
study in 2018
found that Megachirella, an
extinct genus of
lepidosaurs that
lived about 240
million years ago
during the
Middle Tri****ic, was...
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archosaurs (such as
crocodilians and dinosaurs,
including birds)
rather than
lepidosaurs (such as tuataras, lizards, and snakes).
Archosauromorphs first appeared...
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pluvial event occurs around 234–232 Ma,
allowing the
first dinosaurs and
lepidosaurs (including rhynchocephalians) to radiate. Tri****ic–Jur****ic extinction...
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archosauromorphs (reptilians
closer to
archosaurs than to
lizards or
other lepidosaurs)
appeared in the Permian.
Archosaurs quickly diversified in the aftermath...
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fundamental subgroup of amniotes, the sauropsids,
diverged into the reptiles:
lepidosaurs (lizards, snakes, and the tuatara),
archosaurs (crocodilians and dinosaurs...
