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This is a checklist of American reptiles found in Northern America, based primarily on publications by the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR). [1] [2] [3] It includes all species of Bermuda, Canada, Greenland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and the United States including recently introduced species such as chameleons, the Nile monitor, and the Burmese python.
List of reptiles of Mexico. Central America and the Caribbean. List of reptiles of Guatemala. List of reptiles of El Salvador. List of reptiles of Costa Rica. List of reptiles of Puerto Rico. List of reptiles of Barbados. List of reptiles of Saint Lucia. List of reptiles of Martinique.
Quetzalcoatlus. Quetzalcoatlus (/ kɛtsəlkoʊˈætləs /) is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur known from the Late Cretaceous Maastrichtian age of North America. The first specimen, recovered in 1971 from the Javelina Formation, consists of several wing fragments. It was made the holotype of Quetzalcoatlus northropi in 1975 by Douglas Lawson and ...
Pueraria montana– kudzu(a.k.a. Pueraria lobata) from Japan. Cytisus scoparius– Common broomfrom Europe. Robinia pseudoacacia- black locust (in non-native parts of the United States)[452] Gleditsia triacanthos- Honey-locust (in non-native parts of the United States)[453] Albizia julibrissin- Persian silk tree.
List of reptiles of New Jersey; List of reptiles of New Mexico; List of reptiles of New York; List of reptiles of North Carolina; List of reptiles of North Dakota; List of reptiles of the Northern Mariana Islands; List of reptiles of Ohio; List of reptiles of Oklahoma; List of reptiles of Oregon; List of reptiles of Pennsylvania; List of ...
A = Anapsid, B = Synapsid, C = Diapsid. It was traditionally assumed that first reptiles were anapsids, having a solid skull with holes only for the nose, eyes, spinal cord, etc.; [10] the discoveries of synapsid-like openings in the skull roof of the skulls of several members of Parareptilia, including lanthanosuchoids, millerettids, bolosaurids, some nycteroleterids, some procolophonoids and ...
Pterodactylus (from Ancient Greek: πτεροδάκτυλος, romanized: pterodáktylos ' winged finger ' [2]) is a genus of extinct pterosaurs.It is thought to contain only a single species, Pterodactylus antiquus, which was the first pterosaur to be named and identified as a flying reptile and one of the first prehistoric reptiles to ever be discovered.
Pteranodon was the first pterosaur found outside of Europe. Its fossils first were found by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1871, [6] in the Late Cretaceous Smoky Hill Chalk deposits of western Kansas. These chalk beds were deposited at the bottom of what was once the Western Interior Seaway, a large shallow sea over what now is the midsection of the ...