How To Use diapsid In A Sentence
- This is where Lenny caustically suggested that I was a YEC for not knowing that turtles had been reclassified as diapsids with a secondarily anapsid appearing skull I hope that embryologically turtle skulls start off as diapsid and then change but I dont really know. Drawing a Line in the Academic Sand - The Panda's Thumb
- You may also have noticed that the birds do not have their own box in the cladogram; this is because they are one subgroup of the diapsids, a clade which includes dinosaurs, snakes, and most reptiles.
- As with many in the systematics community, I am skeptical that turtles are derived diapsids.
- Edit perhaps this isnt the correct place to ask this question, but I’ve had difficulty with these high-in-the-classification-system words and perhaps someone knows the exact evolutionary definitions and how they compare to each other: “reptile”, “sauropsid” and “diapsid”. Down with phyla! (episode II) - The Panda's Thumb
- The primitive reptiles were represented by lizard-like captorhinids and basal diapsids.
- All members of the group called the Reptilia, except for the anapsids (turtles and their ilk), and a few extinct groups, are diapsids.
- Birds are also clearly diapsids and if every living amniote that isnt a mammal is a diapsid then birds are diapsid reptiles too. Drawing a Line in the Academic Sand - The Panda's Thumb
- It doesnt seem likely that anapsid skulls are all secondarily derved from diapsids. Report on the 2005 Creation Mega Conference, Part Four - The Panda's Thumb
- Many years later euryapsids had vanished into the lepidosaurs sphenodon, snakes and lizards-all diapsids as a secondary change, and then there was the term “sauropsid” which I saw for the 1st time at AMNH which gathered together all non synapsids and non turtles. Drawing a Line in the Academic Sand - The Panda's Thumb
- This confirms my suspicion that it takes a diapsid to know one New evidence that natural selection is a general driving force behind the origin of species - The Panda's Thumb
