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Sauropsida (Greek for "lizard faces") is a clade of amniotes, broadly equivalent to the class Reptilia, though typically used in a broader sense to also include extinct stem-group relatives of modern reptiles and birds (which, as theropod dinosaurs, are nested within reptiles as more closely related to crocodilians than to lizards or turtles). [2]
Sauropsida is a group of amniotes that includes all existing reptiles and birds and their fossil ancestors. Sauropsida is distinguished from Synapsida, which...
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Sauropoda (/ sɔːˈrɒpədə /), whose members are known as sauropods (/ ˈsɔːrəpɒdz /; [1][2] from sauro- + -pod, ' lizard -footed'), is a clade of saurischian ('lizard-hipped') dinosaurs. Sauropods had very long necks, long tails, small heads (relative to the rest of their body), and four thick, pillar-like legs.
The video explores the evolutionary rivalry between two major animal branches: Synapsida ("Beasts") and Sauropsida ("Dragons"), spanning over 300 million yea...
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- Ancient Discovery
Apr 24, 2020 · Evolution and Paleontology lecture given to Honours students at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa)
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- Julien Benoit
Sauropoda is a clade of dinosaurs that consists of roughly 300 species of large, long-necked herbivores and includes the largest terrestrial animals ever to exist. The first sauropod species were named in 1842 by Richard Owen, though at the time, he regarded them as unusual crocodilians.
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Sauropodomorpha (/ ˌsɔːrəˌpɒdəˈmɔːrfə / [2] SOR-ə-POD-ə-MOR-fə; from Greek, meaning "lizard-footed forms") is an extinct clade of long-necked, herbivorous, saurischian dinosaurs that includes the sauropods and their ancestral relatives.
