Lepidosauromorpha
Lizards, snakes, Sphenodon, and their extinct relatives
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Tree after Gauthier et al. 1988.
Other Names for Lepidosauromorpha
- lepidosaurs
- Lizards, snakes, Sphenodon, and their extinct relatives
References
Carroll, R. L. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. W. H. Freeman, New York.
Carroll, R. L. 1988. Late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic lepidosauromorphs and their relation to lizard ancestry. Pages 99-118 in The Phylogenetic Relationships of the Lizard Families. (R. Estes and G. Pregill, eds.). Stanford University Press, Palo Alto.
deBraga, M. and O. Rieppel. 1997. Reptile phylogeny and the interrelationships of turtles. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 120:281-354.
Gauthier, J., R. Estes and K. de Queiroz. 1988. A phylogenetic analysis of Lepidosauromorpha. Pages 15-98 in The Phylogenetic Relationships of the Lizard Families. (R. Estes and G. Pregill, eds.). Stanford University Press, Palo Alto.
Hedges S. B. and L. L. Poling. 1999. A molecular phylogeny of reptiles. Science 283: 998-1001.
Rest, J. S., J. C. Ast., C. C. Austin, P. J. Waddell, E. A. Tibbetts, J. M. Hay, and D. P. Mindell. 2003. Molecular systematics of primary reptilian lineages and the tuatara mitochondrial genome. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 29(2):289-297.
Rieppel, O. 1994. The Lepidosauromorpha: an overview with special emphasis on the Squamata. Pages 23-37 in In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs. (N. C. Fraser and H.-D. Sues, eds.) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Title Illustrations
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One squamate eating another:
Vine Snake, Oxybelis brevirostris, with captured anole, Norops sp.
La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica.
Photograph copyright © 2000 Greg and Mary Beth Dimijian.
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