Rhynchocephalia (/ˌrɪŋkoʊsɪˈfeɪliə/; lit. 'beak-heads') is an order of lizard-like reptiles that includes only one living species, the tuatara (Sphenodon...
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Tuatara (category Rhynchocephalia)
resemblance to lizards, it is part of a distinct lineage, the order Rhynchocephalia. The name tuatara is derived from the Māori language and means "peaks...
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subclass or superorder of reptiles, containing the orders Squamata and Rhynchocephalia. Squamata includes lizards and snakes. Squamata contains over 9,000...
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members of the order Rhynchocephalia. The only surviving member of the Rhynchocephalia is the tuatara. Squamata and Rhynchocephalia form the subclass Lepidosauria...
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Michael J.; Ruta, Marcello (May 2017). "Macroevolutionary patterns in Rhynchocephalia: Is the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) a living fossil?". Palaeontology...
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America by the early Late Cretaceous. The cause of the decline of Rhynchocephalia remains unclear, but has often been suggested to be due to competition...
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(turtles), Crocodilia (crocodilians), Squamata (lizards and snakes), and Rhynchocephalia (the tuatara). As of May 2023, about 12,000 living species of reptiles...
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suggested to represent a late surviving lepidosauromorph outside both Rhynchocephalia and Squamata, though some studies have recovered it as a stem-squamate...
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two subdivisions, Squamata, which contains lizards and snakes, and Rhynchocephalia, the only extant species of which is the tuatara. Lepidosauromorphs...
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Allen Formation (section Rhynchocephalia)
Rhynchocephalia reported from the Allen Formation Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Material Notes Images Lamarquesaurus L. cabazai Cerro...
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Sphenodontidae (category Rhynchocephalia)
Sphenodontidae is a family within the reptile group Rhynchocephalia, comprising taxa most closely related to the living tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus)...
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Kayenta Formation (section Rhynchocephalia)
together in the morphospace of sphenodontians and early lepidosaurs. Rhynchocephalia Indeterminate Airhead West Silty Facies Uncertain Fragments Rhynchocephalians...
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(2011). "Hard tissue anatomy of the cranial joints in Sphenodon (Rhynchocephalia): sutures, kinesis, and skull mechanics". Palaeontologia Electronica...
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Clevosaurus (category Rhynchocephalia)
it is excluded from Neosphenodontia. Position of Clevosaurus within Rhynchocephalia, after DeMar et al. 2022. Sues, H. D.; Reisz, R. (1995). "First record...
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Containing the Orders Ornithosauria, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, Squamata, Rhynchocephalia, and Proterosauria. British Museum (Natural History):London, 1-309...
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Vadasaurus (category Rhynchocephalia)
allied with Kallimodon and Sapheosaurus. Although the structure of Rhynchocephalia as a whole is changeable depending on the methodology used in the analysis...
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List of reptile genera (section Order Rhynchocephalia)
includes Squamata and Rhynchocephalia. It is a monophyletic group and therefore contains all descendants of a common ancestor. Rhynchocephalia is an order of...
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Rhynchocephalia (tuatara and their extinct relatives) Squamata (lizards and snakes)...
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Thomas L.; Benton, Michael J. (2017). "Macroevolutionary patterns in Rhynchocephalia: is the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) a living fossil?". Palaeontology...
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Containing the Orders Ornithosauria, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, Squamata, Rhynchocephalia, and Proterosauria. British Museum of Natural History, London, 309...
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Sauria. Choristodera was erected in 1876, originally as a suborder of Rhynchocephalia by Edward Drinker Cope to contain Champsosaurus, which was described...
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Fraserosphenodon (category Rhynchocephalia)
"Taxonomic reassessment of Clevosaurus latidens Fraser, 1993 (Lepidosauria, Rhynchocephalia) and rhynchocephalian phylogeny based on parsimony and Bayesian inference"...
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Cromwell Road S.W. Pt. 1: The Orders Ornithosauria, Crocodilia, Squamata, Rhynchocephalia, and Proterosauria. London: The Trustees. Cited in Molnar RE (2004)...
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Ohrspähre der Lacertilia und Rhynchocephalia (dissertation), 1898 – The middle and outer ear-sphere of Lacertilia and Rhynchocephalia. Die Gorgoniden der Siboga-Expedition...
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Containing the Orders Ornithosauria, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, Squamata, Rhynchocephalia and Pterosauria. Taylor and Francis. pp. 2–37. Bennett, S.C. (1996)...
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Opisthiamimus (category Rhynchocephalia)
Wyoming, USA, provides insight into the evolution and diversity of Rhynchocephalia (Reptilia: Lepidosauria)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 20...
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Opisthodontia (reptile) (category Rhynchocephalia)
a well-supported clade, especially compared to other groups within Rhynchocephalia, which often shift in evolutionary position between studies. In particular...
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