Rhynchocephalia


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Related to Rhynchocephalia: Sphenodontidae
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Noun1.Rhynchocephalia - tuataras; extinct forms from middle Triassic
order Rhynchocephalia
animal order - the order of animals
Lepidosauria, subclass Lepidosauria - diapsid reptiles: lizards; snakes; tuataras
genus Sphenodon, Sphenodon - coextensive with the order Rhynchocephalia: tuataras
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Versluys (1903) studies the chondrification of the columella auris in Lacertilia and Rhynchocephalia. Brock (1929) and Hernandez-Jaimes et al.
Prenatal development of the sound transmitting apparatus in different embryonic stages of Malpolon monsspesulanus (squamata-serpentes)/ Desenvolvimento pre-natal do aparelho transmissor de som em diferentes estagios embrionarios de Malpolon monsspesulanus (Squamata-serpentes)
Seligmann H, Moravec J and Werner YL (2008) Morphology, functional and evolutionary aspects of tail autotomy and regeneration in the "living fossil*' Sphenodon (Reptilia: Rhynchocephalia).
A record of four regrowing tails in a Large Striped Skink Ctenotus robustus from Yan Yean, Victoria
A new species of Clevosaurus (Lepidosauria: Rhynchocephalia) from the Late Triassic of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Stratigraphic and temporal context and faunal diversity of Permian-Jurassic continental Tetrapod assemblages from the Fundy rift basin, eastern Canada

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