Assertion: tuatara's order | /r/HasProperty | rhynchocephalia
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text: Although resembling most lizards, they are part of a distinct lineage, the order Rhynchocephalia.
text: An endemic species of New Zealand, the tuatara is a reptile belonging to the order Rhynocephalia.
text: Class Reptilia; Subclass Diapsida; Superorder Lepidosauria; and two Orders: Rhyncocephalia (Suborder Sphenodontida—tuataras) and Squamata (“lizards” that also include snakes and amphisbaenas).
text: They are called ‘living fossils’ as they’re the last species from the order Rhynchocephalian.
text: Tuatara are the only living members left of the Rhynchocophalian order.
text: Although tuataras look like lizards they actually belong to a separate reptilian order called the Rhynchocephalia which were once dominant on land until all but one species, tuataras, died out.
text: He proposed the order Rhynchocephalia (meaning "beak head") for the tuatara and its fossil relatives.
text: He proposed the order Rhynchocephalia (meaning "beak head") for the tuatara and its fossil relatives.
text: or, lizardlike reptile last survivor of the reptilian order Rhynchocephalia, which flourished in the early Mesozoic era before the rise of the dinosaurs.
text: (Interestingly, the order it belongs to, Rhynchocephalia, means “beak heads.
text: [Albert Günther] proposed the order Rhynchocephalia (meaning "beak head") for the tuatara and its fossil relatives.
text: Although resembling most lizards, they are part of a distinct lineage, the order Rhynchocephalia.
text: He proposed the order Rhynchocephalia (meaning "beak head") for the tuatara and its fossil relatives.
text: Endemic to New Zealand, the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) comes from an ancient lineage of reptiles and is the only living member of the order Rhynchocephalia.
text: The tuatara is the only living member of the order Rhynchocephalia.
text: They are the last of their breed - the two living tuatara species are the last remaining reptiles of the order Rhynchocephalia (or 'beak-headed' reptiles; sometimes also called Sphenodontia), a once-flourishing group of reptiles that largely died out at end of the Cretaceous period (65 million years ago), along with all dinosaurs (except for the ones that had already become birds, but that's a whole other story).
text: The species remained misclassified until 1867, when Gunther (also at the British Museum) noted certain bird-like, turtle-like, and crocodile-like features and proposed the order Rhynchocephalia (beak heads) for the tuatara and its fossile relatives.
text: He proposed the order Rhynchocephalia (meaning "beak head") for the tuatara and its fossil relatives.
text: He proposed the order Rhynchocephalia (meaning "beak head") for the tuatara and its fossil relatives.
text: The fourth Order, Rhynchocephalia, flourished in pre-historic times but is now almost extinct.
text: The common name‘Tuatara’ actually describes two closely related species, Sphenodon gunteri and Sphenodonpunctatus, which are the sole members of the order Rhynocephalia (Rest et al.
text: Conservation Status Tuataras are of great concern to conservationists because they are the only survivorsof the order Rhynocephalia and because their life cycle makes them especially susceptible toextinction.