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Sauropsid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (377 words) |
 | Sauropsida is an amniote clade that includes all recent and all or almost all extinct reptiles (excluding the Synapsida), and birds. |
| He also reinterpreted the Sauropsida and Theropsida to exclude birds and mammals respectively. Sauropsida thus came to refer to the Procolophonia, Eosuchia, Millerosauria, Cheloniana (turtles), Squamata (lizards and snakes), Rhynchocephalia, Crocodylia, Thecodontia, Dinosaurs, Pterosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, and Sauropterygia ; while the Theropsida (=Synapsida) included the Pelycosaurs and the Therapsida (mammal-like reptiles). |
| In the new ( 2004) edition of his textbook, Dr Michael Benton uses the term "Class Sauropsida" to refer to all non-synapsid reptiles. |
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