Incidentally, have you heard of gharials, the demented black sheep of Crocodilia?. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » The colors are ready! What do you think?] Reference
Fossil crocodilians from Colombia and the Cenozoic history of the Crocodilia in South America. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference
If you are one of the ~1% of my readers that knew that much about alligators, I congratulate you on your knowledge of Crocodilia. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » How to Deal With Conflicting Advice About Your Story] Reference
The map shown above lumps in caimans with crocodiles because the reference map we used was for the order Crocodilia (which includes crocodiles, caimans, gharials and alligators). From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » The colors are ready! What do you think?] Reference
Even among the ‘Reptilia’ — the class which exhibits the largest proportion of entirely extinct forms of any one type, — that of the ‘Crocodilia’, has persisted from at least the commencement of the Mesozoic epoch up to the present time with so much constancy, that the amount of change which it exhibits may fairly, in relation to the time which has elapsed, be called insignificant. From Wordnik.com. [Essays] Reference
Crocodilia, is represented, at the early part of the Mesozoic epoch, by species identical in the essential characters of their organization with those now living, and differing from the latter only in such matters as the form of the articular facets of the vertebral centra, in the extent to which the nasal passages are separated from the cavity of the mouth by bone, and in the proportions of the limbs. From Wordnik.com. [Essays] Reference
"On Stagonolepis Robertsoni, and on the Evolution of the Crocodilia". From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3] Reference
Dorsal and Ventral Armous and Various Positions of Embedding in Diplocynodono (Crocodilia) - Kaupia Darmst. From Wordnik.com. [Messel Pit fossil site, Germany] Reference
In the Crocodilia and Dinosauria the supratemporal is omitted, and in Sauropterygia it is fused with the supra - mastoid. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
This genus is made the type of a suborder of Crocodilia by Baur (Pseudosuchia), but it appears to me to be typical of a special order (PI. lY, Fig. 2). From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
Again, the more ancient Crocodilia and Lacertilia have vertebrae with the articular facets of their centra flattened or biconcave, while the modern members of the same group have them procoelous. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
Again, the more ancient Crocodilia and Lacertilia have vertebræ with the articular facets of their centra flattened or biconcave, while the modern members of the same group have them procoelous. From Wordnik.com. [Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews] Reference
The order Labyrinthodonta recalls to mind, as as has been said earlier, the Crocodilia amongst reptiles, of which they may be deemed as the prophetic precursors, so to speak, though certainly not the direct ancestors. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Frog] Reference
'Reptilia' -- the class which exhibits the largest proportion of entirely extinct forms of any one type, -- that of the 'Crocodilia', has persisted from at least the commencement of the Mesozoic epoch up to the present time with so much constancy, that the amount of change which it exhibits may fairly, in relation to the time which has elapsed, be called insignificant. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
Among Reptiles, the highest living group, that of the Crocodilia, is represented, at the early part of the Mesozoic epoch, by species identical in the essential characters of their organization with those now living, and differing from the latter only in such matters as the form of the articular facets of the vertebral centra, in the extent to which the nasal passages are separated from the cavity of the mouth by bone, and in the proportions of the limbs. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
Crocodilia (crocodiles). From Wordnik.com. [The Common Frog] Reference
Crocodilia (Teleosaurus). From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
Crocodilia. From Wordnik.com. [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference
Crocodilia, 147, 185. From Wordnik.com. [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference
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