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SauropsidaSauropsida (ger.)

  • The second of the three primary groups of Vertebrata in Huxley’s classification, comprising reptiles and birds. (OED)
    animal
    1864

    Mr. Parker agrees with my suggestion […] that the basi-temporals of the Sauropsida (or Birds and Reptiles) are the homologues of the lingulæ sphenoidales of Man.

    Huxley, T.H. (1864). Lectures on the Elements of Comparative Anatomy, on the Classification of Animals and on the Vertebrate Skull: 220.

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