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    Archosaur (redirect from Archosauria)
    Archosauria (lit. 'ruling reptiles') or archosaurs (/ˈɑːrkəˌsɔːr/) is a clade of diapsid sauropsid tetrapods, with birds and crocodilians being the only...
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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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    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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    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. Gauthier as part of...
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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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    The Coimbra Formation (Also known as Camadas de Coimbra or Calcários de S. Miguel) is a geological formation of Sinemurian (Lower Jurassic) age in the...
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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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  • between crocodile- and bird-line archosaurs and are a sister taxon of Archosauria. The most recent study retains the former way of classifying phytosaurs...
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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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    (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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    revision and histological investigation of Saltoposuchus connectens (Archosauria: Crocodylomorpha) from the Norian (Late Triassic) of south-western Germany"...
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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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    PMID 37584310. Sulej, T. (2005). A new rauisuchian reptile (Diapsida: Archosauria) from the Late Triassic of Poland. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology...
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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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    snakes) than to Archosauria (crocodilians and birds). By contrast, several molecular studies place turtles either within Archosauria, or, more commonly...
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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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    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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    Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Clade: Sauropsida Clade: Archosauria Clade: Avemetatarsalia Benton, 1999 Subgroups †Incertovenator? †Mambachiton...
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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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    (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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    snakes), Rhynchocephalia, Crocodilia, "thecodonts" (paraphyletic basal Archosauria), non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs, and sauropterygians...
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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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    (or Pan-aves) is more specific than declaring it to be a member of the Archosauria, which would not exclude it from the Crocodilia branch. Basal branch...
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  • Burmese amber is fossil resin dating to the early Late Cretaceous Cenomanian age recovered from deposits in the Hukawng Valley of northern Myanmar. It...
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  • Fiorelli, Lucas E.; Calvo, Jorge O. (2007). "The first "protosuchian" (Archosauria: Crocodyliformes) from the Cretaceous (Santonian) of Gondwana"". Arquivos...
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    Alcober, O. (2000). "Redescription of the skull of Saurosuchus galilei (Archosauria: Rauisuchidae)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 20 (2): 302–316...
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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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    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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