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15 Cards in this Set
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land
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amphibians, turtles, squamates, mammals
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amphibians
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large sit and wait predators
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squamates
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lizards and snakes
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dimetrodon
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ancestor of mammals
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sea
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crocoyliforms, marine reptiles, mosasaurs, plesiosaur Ichthyosaurs
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crocodyliforms
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crocks and their relatives, branched off of living archasauria
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marine reptiles
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include thalattosuchians, mosasaurs, plesiosaur, ichthyosaurs died out before the end of the Cretaceous
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mosasaurs
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overgrown, relates to the monitor lizard
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plesiosauria
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diapsid marine reptiles late Triassic to late Cretaceous
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plesiosaurids
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plesiosauria with elongated necks and small heads
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pliosaurids
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plesiosauria with very short necks and large skulls.
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ichthyosaurs
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marine diapsid reptiles with large dorsal fins, large large eyes
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air
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pterosaurs, both rhamphorhynchiods and pterodactyloids
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rhamphorhynchiods
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short body with reduced and fused hip bones. fourth digit is the wing, TAILS
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pterodactloids
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late Jurassic long skulls for fish, have no tails, weird bony crest
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