Sauropsida (Greek for "lizard faces") is a clade of amniotes, broadly equivalent to the class Reptilia, though typically used in a broader sense to include...

reptile lineage called either Reptilia or Sauropsida. In fact, the study of Gauthier (1994) defined Sauropsida as all amniotes more closely related to reptiles...

as various extinct groups. Sauria lies within the larger total group Sauropsida, which also contains various stem-reptiles which are more closely related...

definition of this clade varies between authors. Others prioritize the clade Sauropsida, which typically refers to all amniotes more closely related to modern...

clades of vertebrate animals in the group Amniota, the other being the Sauropsida (which includes reptiles and birds). The synapsids were the dominant land...

Eureptilia ("true reptiles") is one of the two major subgroups of the clade Sauropsida, the other one being Parareptilia. Eureptilia includes Diapsida (the clade...

the basal most clade within Parareptilia or the basal most clade within Sauropsida (with the latter being the less supported position) despite the skull...

organisms Largest prehistoric organisms Archosaurs are a clade within Sauropsida, but are significantly different from all other reptiles. Bennett, Gordon...

v t e Fossil snakes Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida Order: Squamata Genera with hindlimbs and a sacrum Najash Simoliophiidae Eupodophis...

ancestors back to the phylogenetic split from the remaining amniotes (the Sauropsida). Pan-Mammalia is thus an alternative name for Synapsida. A stem group...