-
descendants of the last
common ancestor of
squamates and rhynchocephalians.
Lepidosaurs can be
distinguished from
other reptiles via
several traits, such as...
- ago).
Living lepidosaurs,
which include snakes, lizards, and rhynchocephalians,
occupy a wide
range of
environments and niches. The
lepidosaurs have many...
- (birds and crocodilians) and
their fossil relatives, to the
exclusion of
lepidosaurs (the
clade containing lizards,
snakes and the tuatara). The majority...
-
archosauromorphs (reptilians
closer to
archosaurs than to
lizards or
other lepidosaurs)
appeared in the Permian.
Archosaurs quickly diversified in the aftermath...
- 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...
- and the
lepidosaur lineage somewhere within the Permian, with
certain reptiles clearly closer to
archosaurs and
others allied with
lepidosaurs. Jacques...
- some of the
earliest dinosaurs (which
include the
ancestors of birds),
lepidosaurs (the
ancestors of modern-day
snakes and lizards) and
mammaliaforms (ancestors...
- by
about 5,700 living
species (excluding
domesticated species). All
lepidosaurs and
turtles have a three-chambered
heart consisting of two atria, one...
-
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...
-
fundamental subgroup of amniotes, the sauropsids,
diverged into the reptiles:
lepidosaurs (lizards, snakes, and the tuatara),
archosaurs (crocodilians and dinosaurs...
