Assertion: tuatara | /r/HasProperty | equated with ancestral state
Facets:
value: for squamates
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: The tuatara has long been equated with the ancestral state for squamates (the clade containing lizards and snakes) because it has a fully diapsid upper skull, a trait not exhibited by any squamate.
text: The tuatara has long been equated with the ancestral state for squamates (the clade containing lizards and snakes) because it has a fully diapsid upper skull, a trait not exhibited by any squamate.