For this reason, many modern scientists prefer to consider the birds part of Reptilia as well, thereby making Reptilia a monophyletic class.
22.
With my limited knowledge of the Reptilia Class of species I feel that he may be a King Snake but I do not know.
23.
At best, the cladists suggest, we could say that the traditional Reptilia are'non-avian, non-mammalian amniotes '.
24.
Like Gauthier " et al . ", Laurin and Reisz used Reptilia as a crown group and placed mesosaurs outside the group.
25.
It has come under critique from cladistics, as the class Reptilia is paraphyletic it has given rise to two other classes not included in Reptilia.
26.
It has come under critique from cladistics, as the class Reptilia is paraphyletic it has given rise to two other classes not included in Reptilia.
27.
He subsequently devoted all his spare time to geology and especially to the fossil reptilia, describing many remains of dinosaurs from the Isle of Wight.
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In this sense, Reptilia was a node-based taxon because the first reptilian common ancestor would have been a " node " on the phylogenetic tree.
29.
The classification of " monkeys " as two seperate taxa, while classifying reptiles ( reptilia ) into a single taxon is simply a statement of existing practice.
30.
Reptilia contains the last common ancestor of reptiles and all descendants of that ancestor including all extant reptiles as well as the extinct synapsids except for mammals and birds.
