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Reptiles

Many reptiles are clearly related. How many basic kinds of reptile are there? What are their characteristics? When did they first appear in the fossil record? This display answers those questions. What are the limits of relatedness?

Click on one of the different reptile kinds, listed below, for more information.

Names in brown indicate all families in the kind are extinct.
Names in blue indicate kinds with families that are alive today.

1 Pelycosaurs
2 Eotitanosuchia
3 Gorgonopsians
4 Estemmenosuchids
5 Dromasaurs
6 Therocephalians
7 Cynodonts
8 Elephantine reptiles
9 Specialized anapsids
10 Captorhinids
11 Protorothyridids
12 Turtles and Tortoises
13 Araeoscelidids, Petrolacosaurids
14 Gliding reptiles
15 Early eosuchian reptiles
16 Earliest lizards
17 Tuataras
18 Blind Lizards
19 Geckos
20 Iguanas
21 Chameleons
22 Skinks
23 Monitors
24 Lateral fold lizards
25 Worm Lizards
26 Snakes
27 Trilophosaurids
28 Rhynchosaurids
29 Long-necked archosauromorphs
30 Heavy quadrupeds
31 Euparkeriids
32 Proterochampsids
33 Stagonolepididae
34 Crocodiles
35 Jurassic Rhamphorhynchoids
36 Cretaceous Pterodactyloids
37 Theropod dinosaurs
38 Prosauropods
39 Sauropods
40 Bipedal, beaked, herbivores
41 Ankylosaurs
42 Plated and spiked dinosaurs
43 Ceratopsians
44 Bipedal, bone-headed dinosaurs
45 Psittacosaurids
46 Bolosaurids
47 Acleistorhinids
48 Eunotosaurids
49 Morganucodontids