Definition of Sauropsids. Meaning of Sauropsids. Synonyms of Sauropsids

- amphibians as well as early reptiles predating the sauropsid/synapsid split (and thus not true sauropsids). His concept differed from modern classifications...
- synapsids are in fact a monophyletic sister taxon of sauropsids, rather than a part of the sauropsid lineage. Therefore, calling synapsids "mammal-like...
- found in all vertebrates and the harder, derived forms found only among sauropsids (reptiles and birds). Spider silk is classified as keratin, although production...
- diversification of the two groups of amniotes, the synapsids and the sauropsids (reptiles). The world at the time was dominated by the supercontinent...
- vertebrates. They almost immediately diverged into two groups, namely the sauropsids (including all reptiles and birds) and synapsids (including mammals and...
- Diapsids ("two arches") are a clade of sauropsids, distinguished from more primitive eureptiles by the presence of two holes, known as temporal fenestrae...
- been among the most basal sauropsids or among the most basal parareptiles (in the case of which parareptiles were basal sauropsids). The phylogenetic position...
- the Carboniferous; the synapsids, which was the dominant group, and the sauropsids. The synapsids continued to prosper and increase in number and variety...
- and the birds, are still those considered reptiles today. The synapsid/sauropsid division supplemented another approach, one that split the reptiles into...
- amniotes, with the latter in turn evolving into two major clades, the sauropsids (reptiles, including dinosaurs and therefore birds) and synapsids (extinct...