Assertion: dinosaur | /r/HasProperty | allied
Facets:
value: to crocodilians
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: most closely
type: DEGREE
value: as a group
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Early on it was recognized that, as a group, dinosaurs appear to be most closely allied to crocodilians, though T.H. Huxley had proposed in the 1860s that dinosaurs and birds must have had a very close common ancestor in the distant past.