- The
Lepidosauria (/ˌlɛpɪdoʊˈsɔːriə/, from Gr****
meaning scaled lizards) is a
superorder of reptiles,
containing the
orders Squamata and Rhynchocephalia...
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Lepidosauromorpha (in
PhyloCode known as Pan-
Lepidosauria) is a
group of
reptiles comprising all
diapsids closer to
lizards than to
archosaurs (which include...
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diverse Rhynchocephalia, with both
groups being placed in the
clade Lepidosauria.
Squamates are a
monophyletic sister group to the rhynchocephalians,...
- Squamata, with the two
orders being grouped together in the
superorder Lepidosauria.
Rhynchocephalians are
distinguished from
squamates by a
number of traits...
- now-extinct
members of the
order Rhynchocephalia,
belong to the
superorder Lepidosauria, as do the
order Squamata,
which includes lizards and snakes. Squamates...
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clade formed by
archosaurs and lepidosaurs), as the
sister branch to
Lepidosauria, the
clade containing lizards,
snakes and the tuatara.
Analyses based...
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There is only one
known land
reptile species native to Ireland, the
viviparous lizard. It
appears to have a
widespread distribution across the
entire island...
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Reptiles are
tetrapod animals in the
class Reptilia,
comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and
their extinct...
- The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg)
extinction event, also
known as the K–T extinction, was the m****
extinction of three-quarters of the
plant and
animal species...
- the
neodiapsid subclade Sauria,
defined as the last
common ancestor of
Lepidosauria (which
includes lizards,
snakes and the tuatara), and
Archosauria (which...
