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Archosauromorpha

Index Archosauromorpha

Archosauromorpha (Greek for "ruling lizard forms") is a clade (or infraclass) of diapsid reptiles that first appeared during the middle Permian and became more common during the Triassic. [1]

62 relations: Aenigmastropheus, Allokotosauria, Archelosauria, Archosaur, Archosauriformes, Azendohsauridae, Azendohsaurus, Bird, Calcaneus, Capitanian, Choristodera, Clade, Cladistics, Cladistics (journal), Common descent, Crocodilia, Diapsid, Dinosaur, Drepanosaur, Euryapsida, Friedrich von Huene, Greek language, Holocene, Hyperodapedon, Ichthyopterygia, Incertae sedis, Jacques Gauthier, Lepidosauria, Lepidosauromorpha, Lizard, Longisquama, Miocene, Odontochelys, Pamelaria, Pantestudines, Permian, Placodont, Polyphyly, Proganochelys, Prolacerta, Protorosauria, Protorosaurus, Reptile, Rhynchosaur, Rhynchosaurus, Sauria, Sauropterygia, Sharovipterygidae, Sinosaurosphargis, Snake, ..., Tanystropheidae, Tanystropheus, Tasmaniosaurus, Testudinata, Teyujagua, Thalattosaur, Triassic, Triassic–Jurassic extinction event, Trilophosauridae, Trilophosaurus, Tuatara, Turtle. Expand index (12 more) »

Aenigmastropheus

Aenigmastropheus is an extinct genus of early archosauromorph reptiles known from the middle Late Permian Usili Formation of Songea District, southern Tanzania.

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Allokotosauria

Allokotosauria is a clade of early archosauromorph reptiles from the Middle to Late Triassic known from Asia, Africa, North America and Europe.

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Archelosauria

Archelosauria is a clade proposed in 2014Crawford, Nicholas G., et al.

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Archosaur

Archosaurs are a group of diapsid amniotes whose living representatives consist of birds and crocodilians.

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Archosauriformes

Archosauriformes (Greek for 'ruling lizards', and Latin for 'form') is a clade of diapsid reptiles that developed from archosauromorph ancestors some time in the Late Permian (roughly 250 million years ago).

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Azendohsauridae

Azendohsauridae was a family of allokotosaurian archosauromorphs which lived around 245-216 million years ago.

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Azendohsaurus

Azendohsaurus (meaning "Azendoh lizard") is a genus of extinct, herbivorous archosauromorph from the Late Triassic Period of Morocco.

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Bird

Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Calcaneus

In humans, the calcaneus (from the Latin calcaneus or calcaneum, meaning heel) or heel bone is a bone of the tarsus of the foot which constitutes the heel.

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Capitanian

In the geologic timescale, the Capitanian is an age or stage of the Permian.

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Choristodera

Choristodera is an extinct order of semiaquatic diapsid reptiles that ranged from the Middle Jurassic, or possibly Late Triassic, to at least the early Miocene.

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Clade

A clade (from κλάδος, klados, "branch"), also known as monophyletic group, is a group of organisms that consists of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants, and represents a single "branch" on the "tree of life".

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Cladistics

Cladistics (from Greek κλάδος, cládos, i.e., "branch") is an approach to biological classification in which organisms are categorized in groups ("clades") based on the most recent common ancestor.

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Cladistics (journal)

Cladistics is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing research in cladistics.

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Common descent

Common descent describes how, in evolutionary biology, a group of organisms share a most recent common ancestor.

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Crocodilia

Crocodilia (or Crocodylia) is an order of mostly large, predatory, semiaquatic archosaurian reptiles, known as crocodilians.

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Diapsid

Diapsids ("two arches") are a group of amniote tetrapods that developed two holes (temporal fenestra) in each side of their skulls about 300 million years ago during the late Carboniferous period.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Drepanosaur

Drepanosaurs (members of the clade Drepanosauromorpha) are a group of strange reptiles that lived between the Carnian and Rhaetian stages of the late Triassic Period, approximately between 230 and 210 million years ago.

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Euryapsida

Euryapsida is a polyphyletic (unnatural, as the various members are not closely related) group of reptiles that are distinguished by a single temporal fossa, an opening behind the orbit, under which the post-orbital and squamosal bones articulate.

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Friedrich von Huene

Friedrich von Huene, full name Friedrich Richard von Hoinigen (March 22, 1875 – April 4, 1969) was a German paleontologist who renamed more dinosaurs in the early 20th century than anyone else in Europe.

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Greek language

Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch.

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Hyperodapedon

Hyperodapedon is a genus of rhynchosaurs (beaked, archosaur-like reptiles) from the Late Triassic period (Carnian stage).

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Ichthyopterygia

Ichthyopterygia ("fish flippers") was a designation introduced by Sir Richard Owen in 1840 to designate the Jurassic ichthyosaurs that were known at the time, but the term is now used more often for both true Ichthyosauria and their more primitive early and middle Triassic ancestors.

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Incertae sedis

Incertae sedis (Latin for "of uncertain placement") is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined.

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Jacques Gauthier

Jacques Armand Gauthier (born June 7, 1948 in New York City) is an American vertebrate paleontologist, comparative morphologist, and systematist, and one of the founders of the use of cladistics in biology.

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Lepidosauria

The Lepidosauria (from Greek meaning scaled lizards) are reptiles with overlapping scales.

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Lepidosauromorpha

Lepidosauromorpha is a group of reptiles comprising all diapsids closer to lizards than to archosaurs (which include crocodiles and birds).

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Lizard

Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 6,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains.

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Longisquama

Longisquama is a genus of extinct reptile.

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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Odontochelys

Odontochelys semitestacea (meaning "toothed turtle with a half-shell") is a Late Triassic relative of turtles.

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Pamelaria

Pamelaria is an extinct genus of archosauromorph reptile known from a single species, Pamelaria dolichotrachela, from the Middle Triassic of India.

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Pantestudines

Pantestudines is the group of all tetrapods more closely related to turtles than to any other animals.

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Permian

The Permian is a geologic period and system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic period 251.902 Mya.

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Placodont

Placodonts ("Tablet teeth") is an extinct order of marine reptiles that lived during the Triassic period, becoming extinct at the end of the period.

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Polyphyly

A polyphyletic group is a set of organisms, or other evolving elements, that have been grouped together but do not share an immediate common ancestor.

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Proganochelys

Proganochelys quenstedti, identified as a primitive turtle, is an extinct genus that has been hypothesized to be the sister taxon to all other turtles creating a monophyletic group, the Casichelydia.

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Prolacerta

Prolacerta (meaning "before lizard" in Latin) is an extinct genus of archosauromorph reptile from the Early Triassic.

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Protorosauria

Protorosauria is an extinct, possibly polyphyletic, group of archosauromorph reptiles from the latest Permian (Changhsingian stage) to the early Late Triassic (Carnian stage) of Asia, Europe, North America.

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Protorosaurus

Protorosaurus ("first lizard") is a genus of lizard-like early archosauromorph reptile.

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Reptile

Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives.

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Rhynchosaur

Rhynchosaurs were a group of Triassic diapsid reptiles related to the archosaurs.

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Rhynchosaurus

Rhynchosaurus (beaked lizard) is a genus of rhynchosaur that lived during the Middle Triassic period.

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Sauria

The clade Sauria was traditionally a suborder for lizards which originally (before 1800) comprised crocodilians too.

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Sauropterygia

Sauropterygia ("lizard flippers") is an extinct, diverse taxon of aquatic reptiles that developed from terrestrial ancestors soon after the end-Permian extinction and flourished during the Mesozoic before they became extinct at the end of that era.

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Sharovipterygidae

Sharovipterygidae is a family of gliding protorosaurians from the mid-Triassic of Eurasia, notable for their short forelimbs and long, wing-like hindlimbs, which supported membranes for gliding.

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Sinosaurosphargis

Sinosaurosphargis is an extinct genus of basal marine saurosphargid reptile known from the Middle Triassic (Anisian age) Guanling Formation of Yunnan and Guizhou Provinces, southwestern China.

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Snake

Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes.

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Tanystropheidae

Tanystropheidae is an extinct family of mostly marine archosauromorph reptiles that lived throughout the Triassic Period.

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Tanystropheus

Tanystropheus (Greek τανυ~ “long” + στροφευς “hinged”), was a 6-metre (20 ft) long reptile that dated from the Middle Triassic period.

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Tasmaniosaurus

Tasmaniosaurus ('Lizard from Tasmania', although this genus is not a true lizard) is an extinct genus of archosauromorph reptile known from the Knocklofty Formation (Early Triassic) of West Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

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Testudinata

Testudinata is the group of all tetrapods with a true turtle shell.

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Teyujagua

Teyujagua (named for Teyú Yaguá, a legendary beast from local Guaraní mythology) is an extinct genus of small, probably semi-aquatic archosauromorph reptile that lived in Brazil during the Early Triassic period.

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Thalattosaur

Thalattosaurs (meaning "ocean lizards") are a group of prehistoric marine reptiles that lived during the mid-late Triassic Period.

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Triassic

The Triassic is a geologic period and system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.9 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period Mya.

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Triassic–Jurassic extinction event

The Triassic–Jurassic extinction event marks the boundary between the Triassic and Jurassic periods,, and is one of the major extinction events of the Phanerozoic eon, profoundly affecting life on land and in the oceans.

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Trilophosauridae

Trilophosaurs are lizard-like Triassic allokotosaur reptiles related to the archosaurs.

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Trilophosaurus

Trilophosaurus (Greek for "lizard with three ridges") is a lizard-like trilophosaurid allokotosaur known from the Late Triassic of North America.

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Tuatara

Tuatara are reptiles endemic to New Zealand.

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Turtle

Turtles are diapsids of the order Testudines (or Chelonii) characterized by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs and acting as a shield.

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Archosauromorph, Archosauromorphs, Crocopoda.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archosauromorpha

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