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Sauropsida

Sauropsida (Greek for "lizard faces") is a clade of amniotes, broadly equivalent to the class Reptilia, though typically used in a broader sense to also include extinct stem-group relatives of modern non-avian reptiles and birds (which, as theropod dinosaurs, are nested within reptiles as more closely related to crocodilians than to lizards or turtles).…

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History of classification

DinosaursHesperornisArchaeopteryxHunterian lecturesRoyal College of Surgeons
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Structure difference with synapsids

SynapsidsUreaTriassicUric acidNeocortex
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GreekCladeAmniotesClassReptilia
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Evolutionary history

Cenozoic
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Sauropsida

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Sauropsida

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related to Detailing the reptile family tree · 25
Sauropsida → Archosauria, Chelonia, Choristodera, Crocodilia, Eosuchia, Goodrich's, Goodrich's Protosauria, He, However, In, Millerosauria, Procolophonia, Protorosauria, Reptilia, Rhynchocephalia, Rhynchosauria, Romer's, Since, Squamata, Thalattosauria
related to Huxley and the fossil gaps · 18
Sauropsida → Archaeopteryx, Aves, Birds, Dicynodon, Early, He, Hesperornis, Hunterian, Huxley, Ichthyopsida, In, Reptiles, Reptilia, Royal College, Surgeons, The, Thomas Henry Huxley, Thus
related to Sauropsids redefined (Goodrich, 1916) · 18
Sauropsida → According, Araeoscelida, By, Goodrich, Goodrich's, He, His, Huxley's, Ichthyosauria, Mesosauria, Paleozoic, Permian, Protosauria, Sauropterygia, South Africa, Synapsida, The, Theropsida
related to Subdivisions · 16
Sauropsida → Anapsida, Anthracodromeus, Aside, Captorhinidae, Cotylosauria, Diapsida, Diapsids, Eureptilia, Hylonomus, Late Carboniferous, Late Carboniferous-Late Permian, One, Other, Parareptilia, Permian, Permo-Carboniferous
related to Cladistic definitions · 14
Sauropsida → Anderson, Benton, Class Reptilia, Goodrich's, Huxley's, Modesto, PhyloCode, Protosauria, Reclassifying, Reptilia, Some, Synapsida, The, This
related to Brain structure · 9
Sauropsida → Comparing, Corvidae, Different, For, However, In, Karten, So, Tyrannosaurus
related to Structure difference with synapsids · 3
Sauropsida → Carboniferous, Reptiliomorpha, The
is a · 1
Sauropsida → sibling taxon to Synapsida

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reptiles sauropsids synapsids group clade birds mammals parareptilia dinosaurs also groups modern reptilia eureptilia early neodiapsida include extinct procolophonia parareptiles

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Sauropsidais asibling taxon to Synapsida0.90text
mosasaursinstance ofand marine reptiles0.80text
plesiosaurs.Following the K-Pg extinctioninstance ofand marine reptiles0.80text
mammalsinstance ofand marine reptiles0.80text
the only living group of synapsids diversifiedinstance ofand marine reptiles0.80text
filled the niches left vacant following the extinction of the dinosaursinstance ofand marine reptiles0.80text
the structure of the forebraininstance ofand other features0.80text
theinstance ofOther primitive eureptiles0.80text
Sauropsidarelated to Brain structureDifferent0.60section
Sauropsidarelated to Brain structureFor0.60section
Sauropsidarelated to Brain structureHowever0.60section
Sauropsidarelated to Brain structureComparing0.60section

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