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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]
Sauropoda(/sɔːˈrɒpədə/), whose members are known as sauropods(/ˈsɔːrəpɒdz/;[1][2]from sauro-+ -pod, 'lizard-footed'), is a cladeof 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.
Ang sauropsida ay itinatangi mula sa Synapsida, ang pangkat na kinabibilangan ng mga mamalya at mga ninuno nitong posil (fossil).
Apr 14, 2021 · It was always going to be a big lift, piecing together the story of how sauropods — the long-necked, lumbering giants of the dinosaur world — developed their remarkable, box-like heads. But Yale paleontologists have done just that.
Sauropsida is the sister taxon to Synapsida, the clade of amniotes which includes mammals as its only modern representatives. Sauropsids include all amniotes more closely related to modern reptiles than to mammals.
Sauria is the clade of diapsids 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. [1]
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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 t
