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Lepidosauromorpha, the Glossary

Lepidosauromorpha (in PhyloCode known as Pan-Lepidosauria) is a group of reptiles comprising all diapsids closer to lizards than to archosaurs (which include crocodiles and birds).^[1]

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Early Triassic reptiles
Extant Early Triassic first appearances
Lepidosauromorphs
Olenekian first appearances
Tetrapod unranked clades

Ankylopoda

Ankylopoda was a proposed clade that hypothetically contains turtles and lepidosaurs (tuatara, lizards and snakes) and their fossil relatives. Lepidosauromorpha and Ankylopoda are reptile stubs.

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Archosauria or archosaurs is a clade of diapsid sauropsid tetrapods, with birds and crocodilians being the only extant representatives. Lepidosauromorpha and archosaur are extant Early Triassic first appearances.

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Archosauromorpha

Archosauromorpha (Greek for "ruling lizard forms") is a clade of diapsid reptiles containing all reptiles more closely related to archosaurs (such as crocodilians and dinosaurs, including birds) rather than lepidosaurs (such as tuataras, lizards, and snakes).

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Bird

Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, 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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Black mamba

The black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) is a species of highly venomous snake belonging to the family Elapidae.

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Cargninia

Cargninia is an extinct genus of basal lepidosauromorph from the Late Triassic of Brazil. Lepidosauromorpha and Cargninia are lepidosauromorphs.

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Choristodera

Choristodera (from the Greek χωριστός chōristos + δέρη dérē, 'separated neck') is an extinct order of semiaquatic diapsid reptiles that ranged from the Middle Jurassic, or possibly Triassic, to the Miocene (168 to 20 or possibly 11.6 million years ago).

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Coartaredens

Coartaredens is an extinct genus of reptile from the Middle Triassic of England.

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Crocodile

Crocodiles (family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia.

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Diapsid

Diapsids ("two arches") are a clade of sauropsids, distinguished from more primitive eureptiles by the presence of two holes, known as temporal fenestrae, in each side of their skulls.

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Draco (lizard)

Draco is a genus of agamid lizards that are also known as flying lizards, flying dragons or gliding lizards.

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Early Triassic

The Early Triassic is the first of three epochs of the Triassic Period of the geologic timescale.

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Ectotherm

An ectotherm (from the Greek ἐκτός "outside" and θερμός "heat"), more commonly referred to as a "cold-blooded animal", is an animal in which internal physiological sources of heat, such as blood, are of relatively small or of quite negligible importance in controlling body temperature.

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Feralisaurus

Feralisaurus is an extinct genus of neodiapsid reptile, possibly a basal lepidosauromorph, known from the Middle Triassic of south-western England. Lepidosauromorpha and Feralisaurus are lepidosauromorphs.

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Fraxinisaura

Fraxinisaura is an extinct genus of basal lepidosauromorph reptile known from the Middle Triassic of Germany. Lepidosauromorpha and Fraxinisaura are lepidosauromorphs.

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Green iguana

The green iguana (Iguana iguana), also known as the American iguana or the common green iguana, is a large, arboreal, mostly herbivorous species of lizard of the genus Iguana.

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Helveticosauridae

Helveticosauridae is an extinct family of basal marine reptiles known from the Middle Triassic (Anisian-Ladinian boundary) of southern Switzerland and northern Italy.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.

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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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Kevin de Queiroz

Kevin de Queiroz is a vertebrate, evolutionary, and systematic biologist.

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Kuehneosauridae

Kuehneosauridae is an extinct family of small, lizard-like gliding diapsids known from the Triassic period of Europe and North America. Lepidosauromorpha and Kuehneosauridae are Olenekian first appearances.

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Lacertulus

Lacertulus is an extinct genus of lizard-like reptile, possibly a lepidosauromorph, from the Karoo Supergroup of South Africa.

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Lepidosauria

The Lepidosauria (from Greek meaning scaled lizards) is a subclass or superorder of reptiles, containing the orders Squamata and Rhynchocephalia.

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Lizard

Lizard is the common name used for all squamate reptiles other than snakes (and to a lesser extent amphisbaenians), encompassing over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains.

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Marmoretta

Marmoretta is an extinct genus of small lepidosauromorph reptile known from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) of Britain, as well as the Late Jurassic of Portugal. Lepidosauromorpha and Marmoretta are lepidosauromorphs.

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Megachirella

Megachirella is an extinct genus of lepidosaur, possibly a stem-squamate that lived about 240 million years ago during the Middle Triassic and contains only one known species, Megachirella wachtleri. Lepidosauromorpha and Megachirella are lepidosauromorphs.

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Michael Benton

Michael James Benton One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (born 8 April 1956) is a British palaeontologist, and professor of vertebrate palaeontology in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol.

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Moskvoretskaya Formation

The Moskvoretskaya Formation is a Middle Jurassic (Bathonian stage) geologic formation in the European part of Russia.

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Nature (journal)

Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.

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Palaeagama

Palaeagama is an extinct genus of neodiapsid reptile from the Late Permian or Early Triassic of South Africa.

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Paliguana

Paliguana is an extinct genus of lizard-like lepidosauromorph reptile. Lepidosauromorpha and Paliguana are lepidosauromorphs.

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Pamelina

Pamelina is an extinct genus of basal kuehneosaurid known from Early Triassic (Olenekian age) rocks of Czatkowice 1, Poland.

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Permian

The Permian is a geologic period and stratigraphic 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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PhyloCode

The International Code of Phylogenetic Nomenclature, known as the PhyloCode for short, is a formal set of rules governing phylogenetic nomenclature.

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Pleurodont

Pleurodont is a form of tooth implantation common in reptiles of the order Squamata, as well as in at least one temnospondyl.

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Reptile

Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with usually an ectothermic ('cold-blooded') metabolism and amniotic development.

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Reticulated python

The reticulated python (Malayopython reticulatus) is a python species native to South and Southeast Asia.

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Rhynchocephalia

Rhynchocephalia is an order of lizard-like reptiles that includes only one living species, the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) of New Zealand.

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Sauria

Sauria is the clade containing the most recent common ancestor of Archosauria (which includes crocodilians and birds) and Lepidosauria (which includes squamates and the tuatara), and all its descendants. Lepidosauromorpha and Sauria are tetrapod unranked clades.

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References

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

Also known as Lepidosauriform, Lepidosauriformes, Lepidosauromorph, Lepidosauromorphs, Pan-Lepidosauria.

Lepidosauromorpha, the Glossary

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See also

Early Triassic reptiles

Extant Early Triassic first appearances

Lepidosauromorphs

Olenekian first appearances

Tetrapod unranked clades

References