Individually long-lived and bites with ferocity. Superorder Archosauria . 4 Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, crocodiles, and bird ancestors. As with dinosaurs, with skull openings anterior to the eye, triangular eye orbits, and laterally compressed teeth. Alligators, crocodiles, caimans, and gavials.
Teeth are for seizing prey, which is chunked by shaking.
Egg laying, but show parental care of eggs. These orders are so named because of the relative position of the ischium in their hip bones. FH Pough et al., Vertebrate Life, 4th ed.