Aves are descendants of reptiles, but they are excluded from reptilia, so reptilia is not a clade. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But anyway if we go by the diagram on wikipedia - reptilia is a clade and it includes aves. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But the traditional class reptilia is not a clade. ❋ Unknown (2009)
ID guy: But anyway if we go by the diagram on wikipedia - But anyway if we go by the diagram on wikipedia - reptilia is a clade and it includes aves. and it includes aves. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I never said anything about aves being "nested in reptilia." ❋ Unknown (2009)
The wiki diagram that ID guy linked to is misleading in that it places reptilia in the position where one might normally find the clade sauropsida, and indicates that reptilia is a monophyletic group. ❋ Unknown (2009)
That might be a cladists view of how the nomenclature should be applied, but tradition holds that reptilia does not include aves and so is not a clade. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Tom MH: The wiki diagram that ID guy linked to is misleading in that it places reptilia in the position where one might normally find the clade sauropsida, and indicates that reptilia is a monophyletic group. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Dixit quoque Deus: Producat terra animam viventem in genere suo, jumenta, et reptilia, et bestias terræ secundum species suas. ❋ Prof. De Breeze (2008)
“Producat terra animam viventem in genere suo, jumenta et reptilia.” ❋ Unknown (2007)
Paraphyletic reptiles: I see that someone has dug up the outdated paraphyletic definition of reptilia. ❋ Unknown (2006)
An old paraphyletic booo! definition of reptilia had the earliest sauropsids as ‘reptiles’ but this has been cleared up. ❋ Unknown (2005)
They are infested with rats, against whose depredations the mango trees must be protected with tin ruffs; yet there are six kinds of reptilia upon the island, including the common black snake and cobras, from six to seven feet long: these animals, aided by the dogs, which also persecute the iguanas, have prevented rabbits breeding. ❋ Unknown (2003)
They had sent home specimens of the six reptilia, the six snails and land shells, the seventy-five sea shells, and the 110 fishes, all known by name, which they collected upon the island and in the bay. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Hanya bermula dengan setitik darah yang disedut lalat parasifik yang seni, disuburkan D. N.A.-nya yang rosak dengan spesies reptilia terpilih, tetaskan dengan telur sintetik, dan produk akhir proses klonnya; raung ganas dalam bingit gelombang grafik digital – biarkan genetik salinan asal dinosaur asli. ❋ Natinski (2001)
He discovered the remains of many reptilia, including the _Dicynodon_, which was obtained from the Karroo Beds near Fort Beaufort and described by Owen. ❋ Various (N/A)
If the interpretation of the gigantic foot-steps in the colored sandstone of North America, as belonging to the cursorial birds, is correct, the first appearance of birds falls in the time between the reptilia and mammalia; otherwise the first mammalia would have appeared before the first birds. ❋ Rudolf Schmid (N/A)
Examples of the second fact -- that individuals of higher classes or orders in former states of their embryonic development represent an organization which corresponds to the full-grown individuals of the lower classes -- are: the tail of the human embryo, the gill-arches of the embryos of reptilia, of birds, of mammalia, and of man. ❋ Rudolf Schmid (N/A)
Reptilia is [perfection]. ❋ Frogginator (2004)
"Please don't [slow me] down if i'm going [too fast]" - Oh [julian]! I won't! ❋ Princess Consuella (2004)
