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    Archosaur (redirect from Archosauria)
    Archosauria (lit. 'ruling reptiles') is a clade of diapsid sauropsid tetrapods, with birds and crocodilians being the only living representatives. Archosaurs...
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    Greek: σούχος (souchos), "crocodile") is one of two major divisions of Archosauria, including living crocodilians and all archosaurs more closely related...
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    Gauthier used the name Archosauria to refer to what is now called the Archosauriformes; in modern studies, the name Archosauria has a more restricted definition...
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    2011, Sterling J. Nesbitt found phytosaurs to be the sister taxon of Archosauria, and therefore not crocodile-line archosaurs. Because phytosaurs are...
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    Proterosuchidae and Archosauria. Phil Senter (2005) defined it as the most exclusive clade containing Proterosuchus and Archosauria. Archosauriforms are...
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    Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct...
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    In 1967 Charig used the name "Nyasasaurus cromptoni", in a review of Archosauria, but without any description, so it was commonly considered a nomen nudum;...
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  • The smallest organisms found on Earth can be determined according to various aspects of organism size, including volume, mass, height, length, or genome...
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  • phytosaurs, which may either be true archosaurs or very close relatives of Archosauria. Prosauropod tracks are present in the Redonda, Sloan Canyon, and Sheep...
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  • List of reptile genera lists the vertebrate class of reptiles by living genus, spanning two subclasses. Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines characterized...
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    (June 2005). "A new species of the Late Triassic aetosaur Desmatosuchus (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia)". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 4 (4): 327–340. doi:10.1016/j...
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  • between crocodile- and bird-line archosaurs and are the sister taxon of Archosauria. The most recent study retains the former way of classifying phytosaurs...
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    snakes) than to Archosauria (crocodilians and birds). By contrast, several molecular studies place turtles either within Archosauria, or, more commonly...
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  • of Madagascar may represent the earliest-diverging Avemetatarsalia (Archosauria)". Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Abstracts of Papers, 79th Annual...
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    Weinbaum, J. C. (2013). "Postcranial skeleton of Postosuchus kirkpatricki (Archosauria: Paracrocodylomorpha), from the upper Triassic of the United States"...
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    Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Clade: Sauropsida Clade: Archosauria Clade: Avemetatarsalia Benton, 1999 Subgroups †Incertovenator? †Mambachiton...
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    Crocodilia, contain the only living representatives of the reptile clade Archosauria. During the late 1990s, Aves was most commonly defined phylogenetically...
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    (openings in the skull behind the eyes), and as members of the diapsid group Archosauria, had additional openings in the snout and lower jaw. Additionally, several...
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    Rhynchosauria † Order Protorosauria † Division Archosauriformes Subdivision Archosauria Infradivision Crurotarsi Order Phytosauria† Family Ornithosuchidae †...
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    relatives of birds, as the two groups are the only known survivors of the Archosauria. Members of the order's total group, the clade Pseudosuchia, appeared...
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    genome of Alligator mississippiensis and the separation between recent archosauria (birds and crocodiles)". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 14 (12): 1266–72...
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    (1999) Kischlat E-E, Barberena MC. Prestosuchus chiniquensis (Crurotarsi, Archosauria) does not need a neotype! Paleontologia em Destaque. 1999;14:53. Kischlat...
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    the Triassic of South Africa. Euparkeria is close to the ancestry of Archosauria, the reptile group that includes crocodilians, pterosaurs, and dinosaurs...
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    Weinbaum, J. C. (2013). "Postcranial skeleton of Postosuchus kirkpatricki (Archosauria: Paracrocodylomorpha), from the upper Triassic of the United States"...
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  • 1146/annurev.ea.22.050194.000431. Kemp, T.S. (January 1988). "Haemothermia or Archosauria? The interrelationships of mammals, birds and crocodiles". Zoological...
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  • the fenestra), these indicate that aphanosaurs belonged to the group Archosauria. A partially-erupted tooth was also preserved on the lower edge of the...
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    Adamanian (Late Triassic: Latest Carnian) index taxon Stagonolepis (Archosauria: Aetosauria) and their biochronological significance". Journal of Paleontology...
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    ISSN 1932-8486. Sulej, T. (2005). A new rauisuchian reptile (Diapsida: Archosauria) from the Late Triassic of Poland. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology...
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    classified as reptiles, the three families being included in the group Archosauria ('ruling reptiles'). Despite their prehistoric look, crocodiles are among...
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    classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Clade: Archosauria Clade: Avemetatarsalia Clade: Ornithodira Clade: †Pterosauromorpha Family:...
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