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Pseudosuchia

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crocodylomorphaa group of pseudosuchian archosaurs that includes the crocodilians and their extinct relatives.
crurotarsia clade of archosauriform reptiles that includes crocodilians and stem-crocodilians and possibly bird-line archosaurs too if the extinct, crocodile-like phytosaurs are more distantly related to crocodiles than traditionally thought.
crocodyloideaone of three superfamilies of crocodilians, the other two being Alligatoroidea and Gavialoidea, and it includes the crocodiles.
poposauroideaa clade of advanced pseudosuchians.
dinosauromorphaa clade of avemetatarsalians (archosaurs closer to birds than to crocodilians) that includes the Dinosauria (dinosaurs) and some of their close relatives.
neosuchiaa clade within Mesoeucrocodylia that includes all modern extant crocodilians and their closest fossil relatives.
archosaurnounA reptile of the taxon Archosauria, which includes modern crocodilians and birds, as well as the extinct pterosaurs, non-avian dinosaurs and other taxa.
archelosauriaa clade grouping turtles and archosaurs (birds and crocodilians) and their fossil relatives, to the exclusion of lepidosaurs (the clade containing lizards, snakes and the tuatara).
crocodyliformesa clade of crurotarsan archosaurs, the group often traditionally referred to as "crocodilians".
pterosauromorpha(meaning "pterosaur-like forms") one of the two basic divisions of Ornithodira that includes pterosaurs and all taxa that are closer to them than to dinosaurs and their close relatives (i.e. Dinosauromorpha).
eureptilia("true reptiles") one of the two major subgroups of the clade Sauropsida, the other one being Parareptilia.
ornithosuchidaean extinct family of pseudosuchian archosaurs (distant relatives of modern crocodilians) from the Triassic period.
avemetatarsalia(meaning "bird metatarsals") a clade of diapsid reptiles containing all archosaurs more closely related to birds than to crocodilians.
lepidosauromorpha(in PhyloCode known as Pan-Lepidosauria) a group of reptiles comprising all diapsids closer to lizards than to archosaurs (which include crocodiles and birds).
coelurosauria(from Greek, meaning "hollow-tailed lizards") the clade containing all theropod dinosaurs more closely related to birds than to carnosaurs.
notosuchiaa suborder of primarily Gondwanan mesoeucrocodylian crocodylomorphs that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous.
crocodiliaCrocodylia is an order of semiaquatic, predatory reptiles known as crocodilians.
sauriathe clade of diapsids containing the most recent common ancestor of Archosauria (which includes crocodilians and birds) and Lepidosauria (which includes squamates and the tuatara), and all its descendants.
mesoeucrocodyliathe clade that includes Eusuchia and crocodyliforms formerly placed in the paraphyletic group Mesosuchia.
crocodylinaea subfamily of true crocodiles within the family Crocodylidae, and is the sister taxon to Osteolaeminae (dwarf crocodiles and slender-snouted crocodiles).

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