(paleontology) An order of archosaurian reptiles, confined to the Triassic and distinguished by the absence of a supratemporal bone, parietal foramen, and palatal teeth, and by the presence of an antorbital fenestra.
Thecodontia
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- thecodontia
- Aetosauria (paleontology)
- Archosauria (vertebrate zoology)
- thecodont
- Pseudosuchia (paleontology)
- Ornithischia (fossil reptiles)
- Saurischia (fossil reptiles)
- Reptilia
- Proterosuchia
- Barbarenasuchus
- Wastebasket taxon
- What Is a Reptile? (zoology)
- Archosauriformes
- Saltoposuchus
