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A new reptile tree
Mammals are reptiles
'Ornithodira' is diphyletic
Archosauriforms split
Vancleavea: NOT an archosaur
What is Daemonosaurus?
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Bat ancestors
What is Azendohsaurus?
Lagerpeton: not a pre-dino
Origin of dinosaurs
Diapsids are diphyletic
What is Scleromochlus?
Whales - Odontoceti
Whales - Mysticeti
 
The Diphyletic Reptile Family Tree is featured in The Pterosaur Heresies

Carroll RL 1970. The Ancestry of Reptiles. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B 257:267–308. online pdf

Carroll RL 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. WH Freeman and Co. New York.

Fritsch A 1879. Fauna der Gaskohle und der Kalksteine der Permformation "B¨ ohmens. Band 1, Heft 1. Selbstverlag, Prague: 1–92.

Gauthier JA 1986. Saurischian monophyly and the origin of birds. Memoirs of the California Academy of Science. 8: 1–55.

Ruta M, Jeffery JE and Coates MI 2003. A supertree of early tetrapods. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 270: 2507-2516 DOI 10.1098/rspb.2003.2524 online pdf

 
Lepidosauromorpha
Urumqia clade
Cephalerpeton clade
Captorhinidae
Milleretta Limnoscelis clade
Bolosaurus Diadectes clade
Turtle Pareiasaur clade
Lanthanosuchia
Owenettidae
Lepidosauriformes
Lepidosauria
Tritosauria
Fenestrasauria • Pterosauria
Protosquamata
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Proto-snakes
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frogs
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lizards
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pterosaurs
pterosaur wing origin
drepanosaurs
 
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Reptiles are diphyletic
Diadectes + Procolophon
Rhynchosaurs are sphenodontids
Cosesaurus flapped
The rest of Longisquama
Pterosaurs NOT archosaurs
Pteranodon female?
Pteranodon juvenile
The vampire pterosaur
Flightless pterosaur #1
Flightless pterosaur #2
Darwinopterus, a dead end
Embryo pterosaurs
Softshell turtle ancestor
Hardshell turtle ancestor
Casea NOT a synapsid
Third clade of lizards
Basal tetrapods
Eggshell Types
 
dinosaur origins video
 
pterosaur origins video
 
dual origins of turtles click here
 
human evolution video on YouTube
 
The origin and evolution of birds
 

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