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- Dictionarysaurian/ˈsɔːrɪən/
adjective
- 1. of or like a lizard: "a table with saurian legs"
noun
- 1. any large reptile, especially a dinosaur or other extinct form.
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Clade of reptiles
Sauria is the clade containing the most recent common ancestor of Archosauria and Lepidosauria, and all its descendants. Since most molecular phylogenies recover turtles as more closely related to archosaurs than to lepidosaurs as part of Archelosauria, Sauria can be considered the crown group of diapsids, or reptiles in general. Depending on the systematics, Sauria includes all modern reptiles or... Wikipedia