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Sauria lies within the larger total group Sauropsida, which also contains various stem-reptiles which are more closely related to reptiles than to mammals. [3] Prior to its modern usage, "Sauria" was used as a name for the suborder occupied by lizards , which before 1800 were considered crocodilians.
Sauria Macartney, 1802 Lizard is the common name used for all squamate reptiles other than snakes (and to a lesser extent amphisbaenians ), encompassing over 7,000 species , [ 1 ] ranging across all continents except Antarctica , as well as most oceanic island chains .
Quackpot is the practical joker of the group, much to the ire of the other Tyrannos. Like Ankylo, Quackpot is red with white on his bill, neck and belly. He wears grey, blueish armor and goes also goes barefoot. Quackpot makes a quacking sound like a duck in comparison to his appearance, and talks like a 1920's gangster.
Coelurosauria (/ s ɪ ˌ lj ʊər ə ˈ s ɔːr i. ə /; [3] [4] from Greek, meaning "hollow-tailed lizards") is the clade containing all theropod dinosaurs more closely related to birds than to carnosaurs.
The frill may be capable of working like a directional microphone, allowing them to better hear sounds directly in front of them but not around them. [18] There is no evidence for other suggested functions, such as food storage, gliding or temperature regulation. [3] A frilled lizard in a reptile display (frill folded)
Saurosphargidae is an extinct family of marine reptiles known from the Early Triassic (Olenekian stage) and early Middle Triassic (Anisian stage) of Europe and China. [1] [2] [3]The type genus of the family is Saurosphargis, named by Friedrich von Huene in 1936 based on a single specimen collected from the lower Anisian Lower Muschelkalk of Gogolin, Poland - a section of 12 incomplete back ...
Lepidosauromorpha (in PhyloCode known as Pan-Lepidosauria [2] [3]) is a group of reptiles comprising all diapsids closer to lizards than to archosaurs (which include crocodiles and birds).
In the Philippines, geckos making a ticking sound are believed to indicate an imminent arrival of a visitor or a letter. [37] But in Thailand, if a common house gecko chirps when someone leaves the house, that's a bad omen. In Thai idioms, it is called "greeting gecko". [38] Common house gecko sitting on a blade of grass.