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Pterosauromorpha, the Glossary

Pterosauromorpha (meaning "pterosaur-like forms") is one of the two basic divisions of Ornithodira that includes pterosaurs and all taxa that are closer to them than to dinosaurs and their close relatives (i.e. Dinosauromorpha).^[1]

38 relations: American alligator, Aphanosauria, Arboreal locomotion, Archosaur, Archosauriformes, Avemetatarsalia, Basal (phylogenetics), Brazil, Clade, Common descent, Compsognathus, Dimorphodon, Dinosaur, Dinosauromorpha, Faxinalipterus, Flight, Flocculus, Fossil, Kevin Padian, Lagerpetidae, Lagerpeton, Late Cretaceous, Late Triassic, Maehary, Maxilla, Phylogenetic nomenclature, Phylogenetics, Pterodactylus, Pterosaur, Reptile, Scleromochlus, Semicircular canals, Sister group, Sterling Nesbitt, Suchia, Taxon, Terrestrial animal, X-ray microtomography.
Carnian first appearances

American alligator

The American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), sometimes referred to as a gator or common alligator, is a large crocodilian reptile native to the Southeastern United States and a small section of northeastern Mexico.

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Aphanosauria

Aphanosauria ("hidden lizards") is an extinct group of reptiles distantly related to dinosaurs (including birds).

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Arboreal locomotion

Arboreal locomotion is the locomotion of animals in trees.

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Archosaur

Archosauria or archosaurs is a clade of diapsid sauropsid tetrapods, with birds and crocodilians being the only extant representatives.

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Archosauriformes

Archosauriformes (Greek for 'ruling lizards', and Latin for 'form') is a clade of diapsid reptiles encompassing archosaurs and some of their close relatives.

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Avemetatarsalia (meaning "bird metatarsals") is a clade of diapsid reptiles containing all archosaurs more closely related to birds than to crocodilians.

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Basal (phylogenetics)

In phylogenetics, basal is the direction of the base (or root) of a rooted phylogenetic tree or cladogram.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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Clade

In biological phylogenetics, a clade, also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a grouping of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree.

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Common descent

Common descent is a concept in evolutionary biology applicable when one species is the ancestor of two or more species later in time.

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Compsognathus

Compsognathus (Greek kompsos/κομψός; "elegant", "refined" or "dainty", and gnathos/γνάθος; "jaw") is a genus of small, bipedal, carnivorous theropod dinosaur.

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Dimorphodon

Dimorphodon was a genus of medium-sized pterosaur from Europe during the early Jurassic Period (about 201-191 million years ago).

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. Pterosauromorpha and Dinosaur are Carnian first appearances.

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Dinosauromorpha

Dinosauromorpha is a clade of avemetatarsalians (archosaurs closer to birds than to crocodilians) that includes the Dinosauria (dinosaurs) and some of their close relatives.

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Faxinalipterus

Faxinalipterus is a genus of ornithodiran archosaur, originally described as a pterosaur, from the Late Triassic Caturrita Formation of southern Brazil.

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Flight

Flight or flying is the process by which an object moves through a space without contacting any planetary surface, either within an atmosphere (i.e. air flight or aviation) or through the vacuum of outer space (i.e. spaceflight).

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Flocculus

The flocculus (Latin: tuft of wool, diminutive) is a small lobe of the cerebellum at the posterior border of the middle cerebellar peduncle anterior to the biventer lobule.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Kevin Padian

Kevin Padian (born 1951) is an American paleontologist.

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Lagerpetidae

Lagerpetidae (originally Lagerpetonidae) is a family of basal avemetatarsalians.

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Lagerpeton

Lagerpeton is a genus of lagerpetid avemetatarsalian, comprising a single species, L. chanarensis.

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Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale.

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Late Triassic

The Late Triassic is the third and final epoch of the Triassic Period in the geologic time scale, spanning the time between Ma and Ma (million years ago).

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Maehary

Maehary (meaning "one who looks to the sky" in Guaraní) is an extinct genus of probable gracilisuchid pseudosuchian archosaurs from the Late Triassic (Norian) Caturrita Formation of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

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Maxilla

In vertebrates, the maxilla (maxillae) is the upper fixed (not fixed in Neopterygii) bone of the jaw formed from the fusion of two maxillary bones.

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Phylogenetic nomenclature

Phylogenetic nomenclature is a method of nomenclature for taxa in biology that uses phylogenetic definitions for taxon names as explained below.

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Phylogenetics

In biology, phylogenetics is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups of organisms.

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Pterodactylus

Pterodactylus is a genus of extinct pterosaurs.

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Pterosaur

Pterosaurs (from Greek pteron and sauros, meaning "wing lizard") are an extinct clade of flying reptiles in the order Pterosauria. Pterosauromorpha and Pterosaur are Maastrichtian extinctions.

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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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Scleromochlus

Scleromochlus (from σκληρός, 'hard' and μοχλός, 'lever') is an extinct genus of small pterosauromorph archosaurs from the Late Triassic Lossiemouth Sandstone of Scotland.

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Semicircular canals

The semicircular canals are three semicircular interconnected tubes located in the innermost part of each ear, the inner ear.

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Sister group

In phylogenetics, a sister group or sister taxon, also called an adelphotaxon, comprises the closest relative(s) of another given unit in an evolutionary tree.

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Sterling Nesbitt

Sterling Nesbitt (born March 25, 1982, in Mesa, Arizona) is an American paleontologist best known for his work on the origin and early evolutionary patterns of archosaurs.

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Suchia

Suchia is a clade of archosaurs containing the majority of pseudosuchians (crocodilians and their extinct relatives).

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Taxon

In biology, a taxon (back-formation from taxonomy;: taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.

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Terrestrial animal

Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land (e.g. cats, chickens, ants, spiders), as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water (e.g. fish, lobsters, octopuses), and semiaquatic animals, which rely on both aquatic and terrestrial habitats (e.g.

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X-ray microtomography

In radiography, X-ray microtomography uses X-rays to create cross-sections of a physical object that can be used to recreate a virtual model (3D model) without destroying the original object.

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References

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

Also known as Pterosauromorph, Pterosauromorphs.

Pterosauromorpha, the Glossary

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Carnian first appearances

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