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The term prehistoric
Prehistory

Prehistory is a term often used to describe the period before Recorded history. Paul Tournal originally coined the term Pr?-historique in describing the finds he had made in the caves of southern France....
 reptile
Reptile

Reptiles, or members of the class Reptilia, are air-breathing, cold-blooded vertebrates that have skin covered in scale as opposed to hair or feathers....
 covers a broad category that is intended to help distinguish the dinosaur
Dinosaur

Dinosaurs were the dominant vertebrate animals of Landform ecosystems for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic Period until the end of the Cretaceous Period , when most of them became extinct in the Cretaceous?Tertiary extinction event....
s from other prehistoric reptiles. As the dinosaurs, because of their long and successful reign for many millions of years, are almost exclusively dealt with in their own category of prehistoric life.

The category covers all the non-dinosaurian reptiles which are often erroneously considered to be dinosaur
Dinosaur

Dinosaurs were the dominant vertebrate animals of Landform ecosystems for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic Period until the end of the Cretaceous Period , when most of them became extinct in the Cretaceous?Tertiary extinction event....
s, such as the sea faring varieties of plesiosaur
Plesiosaur

Plesiosaurs were carnivore aquatic reptiles. After their discovery, they were somewhat fancifully said to have resembled , although they had no shell....
s and the flying pterosaur
Pterosaur

Pterosaurs were flying reptiles of the clade or Order Pterosauria. They existed from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous Period . Pterosaurs are the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight....
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The term prehistoric
Prehistory

Prehistory is a term often used to describe the period before Recorded history. Paul Tournal originally coined the term Pr?-historique in describing the finds he had made in the caves of southern France....
 reptile
Reptile

Reptiles, or members of the class Reptilia, are air-breathing, cold-blooded vertebrates that have skin covered in scale as opposed to hair or feathers....
 covers a broad category that is intended to help distinguish the dinosaur
Dinosaur

Dinosaurs were the dominant vertebrate animals of Landform ecosystems for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic Period until the end of the Cretaceous Period , when most of them became extinct in the Cretaceous?Tertiary extinction event....
s from other prehistoric reptiles. As the dinosaurs, because of their long and successful reign for many millions of years, are almost exclusively dealt with in their own category of prehistoric life.

The category covers all the non-dinosaurian reptiles which are often erroneously considered to be dinosaur
Dinosaur

Dinosaurs were the dominant vertebrate animals of Landform ecosystems for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic Period until the end of the Cretaceous Period , when most of them became extinct in the Cretaceous?Tertiary extinction event....
s, such as the sea faring varieties of plesiosaur
Plesiosaur

Plesiosaurs were carnivore aquatic reptiles. After their discovery, they were somewhat fancifully said to have resembled , although they had no shell....
s and the flying pterosaur
Pterosaur

Pterosaurs were flying reptiles of the clade or Order Pterosauria. They existed from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous Period . Pterosaurs are the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight....
s. Also included are ancient crocodile
Crocodile

A crocodile is any species belonging to the family Crocodylidae . The term can also be used more loosely to include all members of the order Crocodilia: i.e....
s such as Deinosuchus
Deinosuchus

Deinosuchus is an extinct relative of the alligator that lived 80 to 73 annum , during the Late Cretaceous Geologic time scale#Terminology....
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For information on the mammal-like "reptiles" (therapsids) and other amniote
Amniote

The amniotes are a group of tetrapod vertebrates that have a terrestrially adapted egg. They include the Synapsida and Sauropsida . Amniote embryos, whether laid as eggs or carried by the female, are protected and aided by several extensive membranes....
s often considered reptiles (including the well-known Dimetrodon
Dimetrodon

Dimetrodon was a predatory synapsid genus that flourished during the Permian Period , living between 280?265 million years ago. It was more closely related to mammals than to true reptiles such as lizards....
), which are not part of the clade Sauropsida (with which "Reptilia" is generally synonymized), see Synapsid
Synapsid

Synapsids , also known as theropsids , are a class of animals that includes mammals and everything closer to mammals than to other living amniotes....
 (amniotes related to mammals). For information on the ancestors of reptiles, traditionally classified as labyrinthodont amphibian
Amphibian

Amphibians , such as frogs, toads, salamanders, newts and caecilians, are cold-blooded animals that metamorphose from a juvenile, water-breathing form to an adult, air-breathing form....
s, see Reptiliomorpha
Reptiliomorpha

Reptiliomorpha is a name given either to reptile-like Labyrinthodontia, or to amniotes and the amphibians from which they evolved....
 (reptile-like tetrapod
Tetrapod

Tetrapods are vertebrate animals having four feet, legs or leglike appendages. Amphibians, reptiles, dinosaurs/birds, and mammals are all tetrapods, and even the limbless snakes are tetrapods by descent....
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List of prehistoric reptiles by group


Early reptile
Reptile

Reptiles, or members of the class Reptilia, are air-breathing, cold-blooded vertebrates that have skin covered in scale as opposed to hair or feathers....
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  • Silvanerpeton
    Silvanerpeton

    Silvanerpeton is an extinct genus of early reptile. It was about 30 cm long. Some paleontology think it was semi-aquatic as an adult, others believe only young Silvanerpeton were semi-aquatic and the adults were fully terrestrial....
  • Captorhinids
    Captorhinidae

    Captorhinidae were the earliest and most primitive reptiles. They are a clade of small lizard-like reptiles that date from the late Carboniferous through the Permian....
  • Protorothyridids
    Protorothyrididae

    Protorothyrididae was a clade of small, lizard-like reptiles, possibly the ancestors of turtles and tortoises. Their skulls did not have fenestra, as is also true of modern turtles and tortoises....
    • Hylonomus
      Hylonomus

      Hylonomus was an early reptile. It lived 315 Annum during the Carboniferous period. As of 2006 it is the earliest confirmed reptile . It was 20 cm long and probably would have looked rather similar to modern lizards....


Early anapsid
Anapsid

An anapsid is an amniote whose skull does not have temporal fenestra near the Temple s.While "anapsid reptiles" or "anapsida" are traditionally spoken of as if they were a coherent group, it has been suggested that several groups of reptiles that had anapsid skulls may be only distantly related: scientists still debate the exact relationshi...
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  • Brasileosaurus
    Brasileosaurus

    Brasileosaurus is the name of a sparse collection of fossils that are nomen vanum-- that is, they will probably never be identified. They are believed to be the fossils of a non-dinosaurian archosaur....
  • Elginia
    Elginia

    Elginia was a pareiasaur - a member of a group of Late Permian parareptiles which grew up to 10 feet long . Elginia was a dwarf form, about 2 feet long, found in Elgin, Scotland, Moray, Scotland....
  • Hylonomus
    Hylonomus

    Hylonomus was an early reptile. It lived 315 Annum during the Carboniferous period. As of 2006 it is the earliest confirmed reptile . It was 20 cm long and probably would have looked rather similar to modern lizards....
  • Hypsognathus
    Hypsognathus

    Hypsognathus is an extinct genus of anapsid reptile from the late Triassic period of New Jersey. It was 33 cm long.Because of its broad teeth, the lizard-like Hypsognathus is thought to have been a herbivore....
  • Labidosaurus
    Labidosaurus

    Labidosaurus is an extinct genus of anapsid reptile from the Permian period. It was about 75 cm long.Labidosaurus was primitive and heavily built, resembling a lizard with a large head....
  • Mesosaurus
    Mesosaurus

    Mesosaurus is an extinct genus of anapsid reptile from the early Permian period. It was about one meter long.The return to the water...
  • Millerettid
    Millerettid

    The milleretids is an extinct group of anapsids that lived in South Africa during the Upper Permian. They were small insectivores and probably resembled modern lizards in appearance and lifestyle....
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  • Milleretta
    Milleretta

    Milleretta was a small, fast-moving reptile that lived in the late Permian period of South Africa, 250 million years ago, at the Oberperm site....
  • Pareiasaurus
    Pareiasaurus

    Pareiasaurus is an extinct genus of anapsid reptile from the Permian period. It was about 2.5 m long.Pareiasaurus was a large quadruped with elephantine legs, walking in a semi-erect posture....
  • Scutosaurus
    Scutosaurus

    Scutosaurus was a genus of armor-covered pareiasaur, perhaps as much as 3.5 m long, which lived around 252-248 million years ago in Russia, in the later Permian period....
  • Bolosaurid
    Bolosaurid

    Bolosaurids are an extinct family of anapsid reptiles from the Permian Period. Fossils have been found in North America, Russia and Germany. The bolosaurids were unusual for their time period by being bipedal, the oldest known tetrapods to have been so....
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  • Pareiasaur
    Pareiasaur

    The Pareiasaurs - family Pareiasauridae - are a group of medium-sized to large herbivore anapsid reptiles that flourished during the Permian period....
    s
    • Bradysaurus
      Bradysaurus

      Bradysaurus was a large , early and common pareiasaur, the fossils of which are known from the richly fossiliferous Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone of the South African Karoo....
    • Scutosaurus
      Scutosaurus

      Scutosaurus was a genus of armor-covered pareiasaur, perhaps as much as 3.5 m long, which lived around 252-248 million years ago in Russia, in the later Permian period....
    • Anthodon
      Anthodon

      Anthodon is an extinct genus of pareiasaurid anapsid reptile from the Permian period of South Africa, Tanzania, and possibly northern Russia....


Turtle
Turtle

Turtles are reptiles of the Order Testudines , most of whose body is shielded by a special bone or cartilage animal shell developed from their ribs....
s, tortoise
Tortoise

Tortoises or land turtles are land-dwelling reptiles of the family of Testudinidae, order Turtle. Like their marine cousins, the sea turtles, tortoises are shielded from predators by a shell....
s and terrapin
Terrapin

A terrapin is a chelonian living in freshwater or brackish water. The name strictly belongs to the diamondback terrapin Malaclemys terrapin, but in British English the name is widely applied to other freshwater turtles such as red-eared sliders, Trachemys scripta elegans....
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  • Archelon
    Archelon

    Archelon is a genus of extinct sea turtle, the largest that has ever been documented. The first specimen of Archelon was collected from the Pierre Shale of South Dakota by Dr....
  • Meiolania
    Meiolania

    Meiolania is an extinct genus of Cryptodira turtle from the Oligocene to Holocene, with the last relic populations at New Caledonia which survived until 2000 years ago....
  • Palaeotrionyx
    Palaeotrionyx

    Palaeotrionyx is an extinct genus of cryptodire turtle from the Paleocene epoch, belonging to the extant softshell turtle family. It was about 45 cm long....
  • Proganochelys
    Proganochelys

    Proganochelys quenstedtii is the second oldest turtle species discovered to date, known only from fossils found in Germany and Thailand in strata from the late Triassic, dating to approximately 210 million years ago....
  • Pleurosternon
  • Stupendemys
    Stupendemys

    Stupendemys is a prehistoric genus of freshwater turtle. Its fossils have been found in northern South America, in rocks dating from the late Miocene to the very start of the Pliocene, about 6 to 5 million years ago....
  • Testudo atlas
    Testudo atlas

    Testudo atlas , also known as Colossochelys atlas, and originally described as Geochelone atlas is an extinct species of cryptodira turtle from the Pleistocene period, about 2 million years ago....


Early diapsid
Diapsid

Diapsids are a group of reptiles that developed two holes in each side of their skulls, about 300 million years ago during the late Carboniferous period....
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  • Araeoscelidans
    • Petrolacosaurus
      Petrolacosaurus

      Petrolacosaurus was a small, long, diapsid reptile, one of the earliest known. It lived during the late Carboniferous period 300 million years ago....
    • Spinoaequalis
      Spinoaequalis

      Spinoaequalis is an extinct genus of diapsid reptile.The 30 cm long creature, known from fossils found in Kansas, USA, was one of the first diapsids, along with Petrolacosaurus....
    • Araeoscelis
      Araeoscelis

      Araeoscelis is an extinct genus of diapsid reptile, one of the first diapsids . It was about 60 cm long. It has been found in Texas, USA....
  • Avicephala
    Avicephala

    Avicephala is an extinct clade of bizarre diapsid reptiles that lived during the Late Permian and Triassic periods. Many species had odd specialized grasping limbs and prehensile tails, adapted to arboreal lifestyles....
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    • Protoavis
      Protoavis

      Protoavis is the name given to archosaurian fossil bones from the Late Triassic found near Post, Texas. These fossils have been described as a primitive bird which, if the identification is valid, would push back avian origins some 60-75 million years....
    • Longisquama
      Longisquama

      Longisquama insignis is an extinct lizard-like reptile known from a poorly preserved and incomplete fossil. It lived during the early Triassic Period, 240 million years ago, in what is now Kyrgyzstan....
    • Coelurosauravus
      Coelurosauravus

      Coelurosauravus is a genus of basal diapsid reptile, with specialized wing-like structures allowing it to glide. These were rod like structures with skin stretched over them; this features is unique to this genus....
  • Champsosaurus
    Champsosaurus

    Champsosaurus is an extinct genus of diapsid reptile belonging to the order Choristodera. It grew to about 1.50 m long.Champsosaurus resembled a gharial and, like gharials, hunted in rivers and swamps, catching fish with its long, tooth-lined jaws....
  • Youngina
  • Thalattosaurians
    • Askeptosaurus
      Askeptosaurus

      Askeptosaurus is an extinct genus of aquatic reptile related to the thalattosauria group. It was about 2 m long. Their remains have been found in Italy and Switzerland....
  • Eosuchia
    Eosuchia

    Eosuchians are an extinct Order of diapsid reptiles. Depending on which taxa are included the order may have ranged from the late Carboniferous to the Eocene but the consensus is that eosuchians are confined to the Permian and Triassic....
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  • Lepidosauria
    Lepidosauria

    The Lepidosauria are reptiles with overlapping scales. They include the tuataras, lizards, snakes and amphisbaenians. Lepidosaurians are the most successful of modern reptiles....
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Ichthyosaur
Ichthyosaur

Ichthyosaurs were giant marine reptiles that resembled fish and dolphins. Ichthyosaurs thrived during much of the Mesozoic era; based on fossil evidence, they first appeared approximately 245 million years ago and disappeared about 90 million years ago, about 25 million years before the dinosaurs became extinct....
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  • Californosaurus
    Californosaurus

    Californosaurus perrini was an ichthyosaur, an extinct fish-like marine reptile, from the Lower Hosselkus Limestone of California. It has also been known as Shastasaurus perrini and Delphinosaurus perrini....
  • Cymbospondylus
    Cymbospondylus

    Cymbospondylus was a basal early ichthyosaur that lived in the middle of the Triassic period . It was one of the largest ichthyosaurs, and fossils range from 6 m up to 10 m long....
  • Shonisaurus
  • Ichthyosaurus
    Ichthyosaurus

    Ichthyosaurus is an extinct genus of ichthyosaur from the Early Jurassic of Europe . It is among the best known ichthyosaur genera, with the Order Ichthyosauria being named after it....
  • Mixosaurus
    Mixosaurus

    Mixosaurus is an extinct genus of ichthyosaur. It was about 1 meter long. Fossils of Mixosaurus, which means "Mixed Lizard" have been found all over the world - China, Timor, Indonesia, Italy, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Canada, Alaska, and Nevada....
  • Ophthalmosaurus
    Ophthalmosaurus

    Ophthalmosaurus was an ichthyosaur of the Middle Jurassic to Late Jurassic period , named for its extremely large eyes. It had a graceful 6 meter long dolphin-shaped body, and its almost toothless jaw was well adapted for catching squid....
  • Temnodontosaurus
    Temnodontosaurus

    Temnodontosaurus was an ichthyosaur from the Early Jurassic, some 198 and 185 million years ago , in Europe . It was a large genus, exceeded 12 meters in length....
  • Eurhinosaurus
    Eurhinosaurus

    Eurhinosaurus is an extinct genus of ichthyosaur from the Early Jurassic of Europe . It was a large genus, exceeding 6 m in length....


Plesiosaur
Plesiosaur

Plesiosaurs were carnivore aquatic reptiles. After their discovery, they were somewhat fancifully said to have resembled , although they had no shell....
s, placodont
Placodont

Placodonts were a group of marine reptiles that lived during the Triassic period, becoming extinct at the end of the period. It is believed that they were related to the Sauropterygia, the group that includes Plesiosaurs....
s, and nothosaur
Nothosaur

Nothosaurs were Triassic marine sauropterygian reptiles that may have lived like pinniped of today, catching food in water but coming ashore on rocks and beaches....
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  • Ceresiosaurus
    Ceresiosaurus

    Ceresiosaurus, meaning "Lizard of Ceresio" , is an extinct genus of aquatic sauropterygian reptile belonging to the nothosaur order. It was about 4 m long and its fossils have been found in Europe, and was named by Bernhard Peyer in 1931....
  • Claudiosaurus
    Claudiosaurus

    Claudiosaurus is an extinct genus of diapsid reptile from the Permian period. It was about 60 cm long.Claudiosaurus was one of the first members of the Neodiapsida, a group of diapsid containing most diapsids except the primitive Araeoscelidia....
  • Cryptocleidus
  • Elasmosaurus
    Elasmosaurus

    Elasmosaurus Greek language e?as???/elasmos = thin plate + sa????/sauros = lizard) is a genus of plesiosaur with an extremely long neck that lived in the Late Cretaceous....
  • Henodus
    Henodus

    Henodus chelyops was a placodont of the Late Triassic period during the Carnian stage.Henodus was the placodont that had the greatest resemblance to a turtle....
  • Nothosaurus
    Nothosaurus

    Nothosaurus is an extinct genus of sauropterygian reptile from the Triassic period, approximately 240-210 million years ago, with fossils being distributed from North Africa and Europe to China....
  • Placodus
    Placodus

    Placodus was a genus of 2.5 metre long marine reptiles, belonging to the order Placodontia, which swam in the shallow seas of the early to middle Triassic period ....
  • Placochelys
    Placochelys

    Placochelys is an extinct genus of reptile from the Triassic period. It was about 90 cm long.Placochelys looked remarkably similar to a sea turtle, possessing the same flippers , flat but knobbly shell and compact skull....
  • Kronosaurus
    Kronosaurus

    Kronosaurus is an extinct genus of short-necked pliosaur. It was among the largest pliosaurs, and is appropriately named after the leader of the Titan , Cronus....
  • Lariosaurus
    Lariosaurus

    Lariosaurus is an extinct genus of sauropterygian reptile from the Triassic period, belonging to the nothosaur order. With a length of 60 cm , it was one of the smallest representatives of the group....
  • Libonectes
    Libonectes

    Libonectes is an extinct genus of sauropterygian reptile belonging to the plesiosaur order.The 7-14 m long creature was very similar to the related Elasmosaurus....
  • Liopleurodon
    Liopleurodon

    'Liopleurodon' is a genus of large, Carnivore marine reptile belonging to the Pliosauroidea, a clade of short-necked plesiosaurs. Two species of Liopleurodon lived during the Callovian stage of the Middle Jurassic Period , while the third, L....
  • Macroplata
    Macroplata

    Macroplata is an extinct genus of Early Jurassic pliosaur, which grew up to 4.5 meters in length. Like other pliosaurs, Macroplata probably lived on a diet of fish, using its sharp needle-like teeth to catch prey....
  • Muraenosaurus
    Muraenosaurus

    Muraenosaurus is an extinct genus of sauropterygian reptile. It lived in the Middle Jurassic of Europe, growing to 8 metres long. Half of its length was its neck, which consisted of 44 vertebrae; in addition its skull was small....
  • Nothosaurus
    Nothosaurus

    Nothosaurus is an extinct genus of sauropterygian reptile from the Triassic period, approximately 240-210 million years ago, with fossils being distributed from North Africa and Europe to China....
  • Peloneustes
    Peloneustes

    Peloneustes is an extinct genus of sauropterygian reptile belonging to the family Pliosauridae. It is known from the Callovian aged deposits of the Oxford clay formation of England....
  • Pistosaurus
    Pistosaurus

    Pistosaurus longaevus is an extinct genus of aquatic sauropterygian reptile closely related to plesiosaurs. It was about 3 m long....
  • Plesiosaurus
    Plesiosaurus

    Plesiosaurus was a large , marine sauropterygian reptile that lived during the early part of the Jurassic Period, and is known by nearly complete skeletons from the Lias of England and Germany....
  • Umoonasaurus
    Umoonasaurus

    Umoonasaurus is an extinct genus of pliosaur belonging to the family Leptocleididae . This genus lived approximately 115 million years ago in shallow seas covering parts of what is now Australia....


Snake
Snake

Snakes are elongate legless carnivore reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears....
s and lizard
Lizard

Lizards are a large and widespread group of squamate reptiles, with nearly 5,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica as well as most oceanic island chains....
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  • Kuehneosaurus
    Kuehneosaurus

    Kuehneosaurus is an extinct genus of Late Triassic reptile from Great Britain. Measuring 72 centimetres long , it had "wings" formed from ribs which jutted out from its body by as much as 14.3 cm, connected by a membrane which allowed it to slow its descent when jumping from trees....
  • Lizard
    Lizard

    Lizards are a large and widespread group of squamate reptiles, with nearly 5,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica as well as most oceanic island chains....
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    • Megalania
      Megalania

      Megalania is a giant extinct goanna or monitor lizard. It was part of a Australian megafauna assemblage that inhabited southern Australia during the Pleistocene, and appears to have disappeared around 40,000 years ago....
    • Yabeinosaurus
      Yabeinosaurus

      Yabeinosaurus is an extinct genus of basal lizard thought to be about 30 cm long. It is known from China....
  • Mosasaurs
    • Mosasaurus
      Mosasaurus

      Mosasaurus was a genus of mosasaur, a carnivorous, aquatic lizard, somewhat resembling a flippered crocodile, with elongated heavy jaws. The genus lived in the Maastrichtian age of the Cretaceous period , around 70-65 millions years ago in the area of modern Western Europe....
    • Selmasaurus
      Selmasaurus

      Selmasaurus is a genus of medium-sized plioplatecarpine mosasaur from the Upper Cretaceous Mooreville Chalk Formation of western Alabama . First recognized by geologist Samuel Wayne Shannon in his 1975 Master's thesis, "Selected Alabama Mosasaurs," the taxon remained a nomen nudum until it was officially described in 1988 in an article co...
    • Tylosaurus
      Tylosaurus

      Tylosaurus was a mosasaur, a large, predatory marine lizard closely related to modern monitor lizards and to snakes. Along with plesiosaurs, sharks, fish, and other Genus of mosasurs, it was a dominant predator of the Western Interior Seaway during the Late Cretaceous....
  • Snake
    Snake

    Snakes are elongate legless carnivore reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears....
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    • Najash
    • Haasiophis
      Haasiophis

      Haasiophis, consisting of the sole species Haasiophis terrasanctus, is an extinct genus of snakes with hind limbs. It is one of three genera of Cenomanian snakes known to have possesed hindlimbs....
    • Pachyrhachis
      Pachyrhachis

      Pachyrhachis is an extinct genus of snake with well developed hind legs known from fossils discovered Ein Yabrud, near Ramallah, in the central West Bank....


Early archosaurs
Archosauromorpha

Archosauromorpha is an Infraclass of diapsid reptiles that first appeared during the late Permian and became more common during the Triassic. Included in this infraclass are the orders Rhynchosauria, Trilophosauridae, Prolacertiformes, Archosauriformes, and, tentatively, the Choristodera....

  • Garjaina
    Garjaina

    Garjainia is an extinct genus of archosauromorph reptile. It was about 1.50-2 m long....
  • Trilophosaur
    Trilophosaur

    Trilophosaurs were lizard-like Triassic diapsid reptiles related to the archosaurs. The best known genus is Trilophosaurus, a herbivore up to 2.5 meters long....
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  • Rhynchosaur
    Rhynchosaur

    Rhynchosaurs were a group of unusual Triassic diapsid reptiles related to the Archosauria. They were herbivores, and at times abundant , with stocky bodies and a powerful beak....
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    • Hyperodepedon
      Hyperodepedon

      Hyperodapedon is a genus of rhynchosaur from the Triassic Period. "Scaphonyx", once thought to be a dinosaur, is now known to be based on material from a specimen of Hyperodapedon, making the name "Scaphonyx" an invalid junior synonym....
  • Ctenosaurids
    • Lotosaurus
      Lotosaurus

      Lotosaurus is an extinct genus of rauisuchian archosaur that lived in China. It was 2.5 m long and a heavily built quadruped. It was a herbivore, biting off leaves with its toothless jaws....
  • Prolacertiformes
    Prolacertiformes

    Prolacertiformes were an order of archosauromorpha reptiles that lived during the Permian and Triassic Periods. Many species seem to have been adapted for an arboreal lifestyle, including the "delta-winged glider" Sharovipteryx, while others, such as Tanystropheus, had extremely long, stiffened necks , and may have been at least part...
    • Protorosaurus
      Protorosaurus

      Protorosaurus , a lizard-like reptile of the order Prolacertiformes, is the earliest known archosauromorph. It lived during the Late Permian period in Germany, and grew up to 2 meters in length....
    • Sharovipteryx
      Sharovipteryx

      Sharovipteryx , was among the earliest gliding reptiles, from the early Triassic period. It was approximately eight inches long, with an extremely long tail, and weighed about 7.5 grams....
    • Tanystropheus
      Tanystropheus

      Tanystropheus , was a 6 metre long reptile that dated from the Middle Triassic period. It is recognizable by its extremely elongated neck, which measured 3 meters long, longer than its body and tail combined....
  • Proterosuchids
    Proterosuchidae

    Proterosuchidae are an early, possibly paraphyletic, assemblage of Basal archosauriformes whose fossils are known from the Latest Permian of Russia and the Early Triassic of southern Africa, Russia, China, Australia, and Antarctica....
    • Chasmatosuchus
      Chasmatosuchus

      Chasmatosuchus was a large archosauriformes reptile from the early Triassic period of South Africa and China. It is one of the earliest well-known archosauriforms....
  • Erythrosuchids
    Erythrosuchidae

    Erythrosuchidae are a family of large Basal archosauromorph carnivores that lived from the later Early Triassic to the early Middle Triassic ....
  • Euparkeria
    Euparkeria

    Euparkeria , meaning "Parker's good animal", named in honor of W.K. Parker, was a small African reptile of the early Triassic period between 248-245 million years ago, close to the ancestry of the archosaurs....
  • Phytosaur
    Phytosaur

    Phytosaurs - family Phytosauridae or Parasuchidae - were a group of large semi-aquatic predatory archosaurs that flourished during the Late Triassic Geologic period....
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    • Centemodon
      Centemodon

      Centemodon is an extinct genus of phytosaur or possible phytosaur from the Late Triassic Period. It lived in what is now present-day North America....
    • Belodon
      Belodon

      Belodon was a phytosaur, a crocodile-like reptile that lived during the Triassic. Its fossils have been found in England, Europe....
  • Ornithosuchus
    Ornithosuchus

    Ornithosuchus is an extinct genus of crurotarsi from the Late Triassic of Scotland. Originally it was thought to be the ancestor to the carnosaur dinosaurs , however now it is known to be more closely related to crocodilians than dinosaurs....
  • Revueltosaurus
    Revueltosaurus

    Revueltosaurus is a genus of prehistoric crurotarsi from Late Triassic New Mexico and Arizona.According to William Parker, who discovered the partial skeleton, "we have pretty much erased the record of Triassic ornithischian dinosaurs from North America, Europe and worldwide, except for South America." His co-author Randall Irmis said,...
  • Aetosaur
    Aetosaur

    File:Aetosaur, PFNP.jpgThe aetosaurs are an extinct clade of heavily armoured, medium- to large-sized Late Triassic herbivore archosaurs. Two distinct subdivisions of aeotosaurs are currently recognized, the Desmatosuchinae and the Aetosaurinae, based primarily on differences in the morphology of the bony scutes of the two groups ....
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  • Rauisuchia
    Rauisuchia

    Rauisuchia are a poorly known assemblage of predatory and mostly large Triassic archosaurs. Originally it was believed that they were related to Erythrosuchidae, but it is now known that they are Crurotarsi....
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    • Postosuchus
      Postosuchus

      Postosuchus was a basal archosaur which lived in what is now North America during the middle through to the late Triassic period . It was a Rauisuchia, a cousin of crocodilia and came from the same ancestry as dinosaurs....
    • Shuvosaurus
      Shuvosaurus

      Shuvosaurus is a genus of beaked reptile from the Late Triassic of Texas. It was described by Sankar Chatterjee in 1993 after it was discovered by his son Shuvo....
    • Teratosaurus
      Teratosaurus

      Teratosaurus was a genus of rauisuchian known from the Triassic Stubensandstein of Germany and from the Krasiej?w of Poland. The type specimen was described by Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer on the basis of a left maxilla with large teeth, which he declared to be distinct from Belodon....
    • Gracilisuchus
      Gracilisuchus

      Gracilisuchus is an extinct genus of tiny crurotarsan from the Middle Triassic. It was a suchian close to the ancestry of crocodiles, and was at one time thought to be a dinosaur, but this hypothesis has since been rejected....
  • Hallopus
    Hallopus

    Hallopus was a prehistoric reptile, classified by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1881 as a dinosaur. In fact it was probably a crocodilian or possibly a more primitive Crurotarsi, and may be closely related to Junggarsuchus ....
  • Lagosuchus
    Lagosuchus

    Lagosuchus was a small archosaur from the Middle Triassic Period . It is generally regarded to be closely related to dinosaurs, as a member of the Dinosauromorpha....


Crocodile
Crocodile

A crocodile is any species belonging to the family Crocodylidae . The term can also be used more loosely to include all members of the order Crocodilia: i.e....
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  • Dakosaurus
    Dakosaurus

    Dakosaurus is an extinct genus within the family Metriorhynchidae that lived during the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous. It was large, with teeth that were serrated edge and compressed lateromedially ....
  • Deinosuchus
    Deinosuchus

    Deinosuchus is an extinct relative of the alligator that lived 80 to 73 annum , during the Late Cretaceous Geologic time scale#Terminology....
  • Goniopholis
    Goniopholis

    Goniopholis is an extinct genus of crocodyliform that lived in North America, Europe and Asia during the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous....
  • Protosuchus
    Protosuchus

    Protosuchus is an extinct genus of carnivorous crocodylomorph from the Early Jurassic. The name Protosuchus means "first crocodile", and is among the earliest animals that resemble crocodilians....
  • Sarcosuchus
    Sarcosuchus

    Sarcosuchus , meaning 'flesh crocodile' and commonly called "SuperCroc", is an extinct genus of crocodyliform and distant relative of the crocodile....


Flying reptile
Reptile

Reptiles, or members of the class Reptilia, are air-breathing, cold-blooded vertebrates that have skin covered in scale as opposed to hair or feathers....
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Pterosaur

Pterosaurs were flying reptiles of the clade or Order Pterosauria. They existed from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous Period . Pterosaurs are the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight....
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  • Anurognathus
    Anurognathus

    Anurognathus is a genus of small pterosaur that lived approximately 155-140 million years ago during the late Jurassic Period . It had a short head with pin-like teeth for catching insects and although it traditionally is ascribed to the long tailed pterosaur group , its tail was comparatively short, allowing it more maneuverability for...
  • Caulkicephalus
    Caulkicephalus

    Caulkicephalus is a genus of pterosaur from the Isle of Wight off the coast of England. The new genus, whose name means "Caulk Head" , was identified by a partial fossil skeleton and partial skull, including several teeth....
  • Cearadactylus
    Cearadactylus

    Cearadactylus was a large, mid-Cretaceous pterosaur. Its wingspan is estimated to have been around 4 to 5.5 metres , with a weight of perhaps 15 kilograms....
  • Coloborhynchus
    Coloborhynchus

    Coloborhynchus is a genus in the pterosaur family Ornithocheiridae, and is known from the Lower Cretaceous of Europe, North America, and South America....
  • Dermodactylus
    Dermodactylus

    Dermodactylus was a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Kimmeridgian-Tithonian-age Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming, USA....
  • Dimorphodon
    Dimorphodon

    Dimorphodon was a genus of medium-sized pterosaur from the Early Jurassic Period . It was named by Palaeontology Richard Owen in 1859. Dimorphodon means "two-form tooth" , referring to the fact that it had two distinct types of teeth in its jaws - which is comparatively rare among reptiles....
  • Dsungaripterus
    Dsungaripterus

    Dsungaripterus was a genus of pterosaur with an average wingspan of 3 metres . It lived during the Early Cretaceous, ranging from China, where the first fossils were found in the Junngar Basin, to Africa, where more remains have been found....
  • Eudimorphodon
    Eudimorphodon

    Eudimorphodon was a pterosaur that was discovered in 1973 by Mario Pandolfi near Bergamo, Italy and described the same year by Rocco Zambelli....
  • Feilongus
    Feilongus

    Feilongus is an extinct genus of Ctenochasmatoidea or Ornithocheiroidea pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Beipiao, Liaoning, People's Republic of China....
  • Nurhachius
    Nurhachius

    Nurhachius was a genus of Istiodactylidae pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning, People's Republic of China....
  • Nyctosaurus
    Nyctosaurus

    Nyctosaurus is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur notable for its extraordinarily large cranial crest, otherwise known only in the distantly related Tapejaridae....
  • Pteranodon
    Pteranodon

    Pteranodon , from the Late Cretaceous of North America , was one of the largest pterosaur genera, with a wingspan of up to ....
  • Pterodactylus
    Pterodactylus

    Pterodactylus is a genus of pterosaur that lived during the late Jurassic Period . It was a carnivore and probably preyed upon fish and other small animals....
  • Pterodaustro
    Pterodaustro

    Pterodaustro was a Cretaceous pterosaur from South America, living 140 million years ago. Pterodaustro had a wingspan of 133 centimeters , and possessed about 1,000 tall, narrow bristle like teeth, which presumably were used in filter-feeding, much like modern flamingos....
  • Quetzalcoatlus
    Quetzalcoatlus

    Quetzalcoatlus was a pterodactyloid pterosaur known from the Late Cretaceous of North America , and one of the largest known flying animals of all time....
  • Rhamphorhynchus
    Rhamphorhynchus (animal)

    Rhamphorhynchus , "beak snout", is a genus of long-tailed pterosaurs in the Jurassic period. Less specialized than contemporary, short-tailed pterodactyloid pterosaurs such as Pterodactylus, it had a long tail, stiffened with ligaments, which ended in a characteristic diamond-shaped vane....
  • Scaphognathus
    Scaphognathus

    Scaphognathus was a pterosaur that lived around Germany during the Late Jurassic. It had a wingspan of about 1 meter. At present it is known from only two specimens, both of which originated in the Kimmeridgian-age Solnhofen Limestone....
  • Sordes
    Sordes

    Sordes was a small pterosaur that lived in the late Jurassic Period of the Mesozoic era. Sordes lived in the in the area of Kazakhstan....
  • Tapejara
  • Tupuxuara
    Tupuxuara

    Tupuxuara is a genus of large, crested, toothless pterosaur, originally described in 1988 from the Cretaceous Santana Formation of Brazil by Alexander Kellner and Diogenes Campos, but since reported from North America as well....


See also

  • Animal
    Animal

    Animals are a major group of multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the Kingdom Animalia or Metazoa. Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their life....
  • Dinosaur
    Dinosaur

    Dinosaurs were the dominant vertebrate animals of Landform ecosystems for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic Period until the end of the Cretaceous Period , when most of them became extinct in the Cretaceous?Tertiary extinction event....
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  • List of dinosaurs
    List of dinosaurs

    This list of dinosaurs is a comprehensive listing of all Genus that have ever been included in the superorder Dinosauria, excluding class Aves and purely vernacular terms....
  • List of dinosaur classifications
  • Prehistoric life
  • Reptile
    Reptile

    Reptiles, or members of the class Reptilia, are air-breathing, cold-blooded vertebrates that have skin covered in scale as opposed to hair or feathers....