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Archosauria

[‚är·kə′sȯr·ē·ə]
(vertebrate zoology)
A subclass of reptiles composed of five orders: Thecodontia, Saurischia, Ornithschia, Pterosauria, and Crocodilia.
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The skull of Postosuchus kirkpatricki (Archosauria: Paracrocodyliformes) from the Upper Triassic of the United States.
Stratigraphic and temporal context and faunal diversity of Permian-Jurassic continental Tetrapod assemblages from the Fundy rift basin, eastern Canada
(1987): The Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in a sector of the South Limb of the Miranda-Trevino Synclinal: the first appearance of Chelonia and Archosauria in the Basque Country.
Late Cretaceous continental and marine vertebrate assemblages of the Lano Quarry (Basque-Cantabrian Region, Iberian Peninsula): an update
(1996): An atoposaurid neosuchian (Archosauria: Crocodyliformes) from the Lower Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia (People's Republic of China).
Choristoderes and the freshwater assemblagesof Laurasia/ Coristoderos y las asociaciones de agua dulce de Laurasia
The next most abundant groups are the Pteridophyta (15%) and Ostheichtya (14%), while the others (Charophyte, Bryophyta, Mollusca, Amphibia, Squamata and Archosauria) make up the remaining percentage of the taxa identified so far (Fregenal-Martinez and Buscalioni, 2009).
A holistic approach to the palaeoecology of Las Hoyas Konservat-Lagerstatte (La Huerguina Formation, Lower Cretaceous, Iberian Ranges, Spain)/ Una aproximacion holistica a la palaeoecologia del Konservat-Lagerstatte de Las Hoyas (Formacion La Huerguina, Cretacico Inferior, Cordillera Iberica, Espana)
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