Lepidosauria

The Lepidosauria (Greek for scaled lizards) are reptiles with overlapping scales. They include the tuataras, lizards, snakes and amphisbaenians.

Lepidosaurs Temporal range: Triassic – Recent
A Coachella Valley Fringe-toed Lizard
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Subclass:	Diapsida
Infraclass:	Lepidosauromorpha
Superorder:	Lepidosauria
Orders
Squamata Lizards Snakes Sphenodontia

Lepidosauria is a superorder of Sauropsida. It includes the orders :

• Squamata
• Sphenodontia / Rhynchocephalia

Lepidosauria Media

• Serpiente en el parque de Jaraguá 2.jpg

  The quadrate bone is particularly elongated in snakes, to facilitate cranial kinesis

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  Schematic skull of a squamate showing the location of major dermal bones

• Katoomba-Hand-of-skink-edited.jpg

  The foot of a skink, showing lepidosaurs' characteristic overlapping scales

• The Pit Organs of Two Different Snakes.jpg

  Python (top) and rattlesnake (bottom) featuring pit organs for infrared sensing. Red arrows indicating pit organs and black arrows pointing to the nostrils

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  A green crested lizard feeding on an invertebrate

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  An eastern blue-tongued lizard preyed upon by an eastern brown snake

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  Global range of lizard species

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  Boots made from snake skin, the three closest from diamondback rattlesnakes