From the “containing group” link on the Diapsida page. From Wordnik.com. [Drawing a Line in the Academic Sand - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
In cladistics, Aves is nested in Reptilia through Diapsida. From Wordnik.com. [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference
We further hypothesize that the descendents of the common ancestor of the Sauropsids form two groups: Testudina and Diapsida. From Wordnik.com. [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference
(Btw, Lenny (I think?) let me know that turtles and their relatives should also be put in the Diapsida branch rather than the Anapsida.). From Wordnik.com. [Drawing a Line in the Academic Sand - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The Tree of Life page plays with Diapsida a bit too, juggling two minor clades to place them outside Diapsida where Major Features of Vertebrate Evolution places them within Diapsida. From Wordnik.com. [Down with phyla! (episode II) - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
And I read a good deal of the latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, including "Redescription and Phylogenetic Relationships of Doswellia kaltenbachi (Diapsida: Archosauriformes) from the Upper Triassic of Virginia," "Utility and Validity of Middle and Late Triassic 'Land Vertebrate Faunachrons,'" and "The Skull of Teleosaurus cadomensis (Crocodylomorpha; Thalattosuchia), and Phylogenetic Analysis of Thalattosuchia.". From Wordnik.com. ["A forest's son, a river's daughter..."] Reference
OLSON (1903) The reptilian subclasses Diapsida and Synapsida and the early history of the Diaptosauria. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
The taxonomy and paleobiology of the Late Triassic (Carnian-Norian: Adamanian-Apachean) drepanosaurs (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha: Drepanosauromorpha). From Wordnik.com. [Hairy Museum of Natural History] Reference
However, both those groups are extinct, so you’re pretty safe if you just think of Diapsida as “lizards + crocodilians + birds + all their extinct relatives.”. From Wordnik.com. [Down with phyla! (episode II) - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Lower branch: Amniota - Reptilia - Diapsida. From Wordnik.com. [Drawing a Line in the Academic Sand - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
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