Archosaur
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Archosaurs are a group o diapsid amniotes whase livin representatives consist o birds an crocodilians. This group includes aw extinct dinosaurs an aa, extinct crocodilian relatives, an pterosaurs. Archosauria, the archosaur clade, is a croun group that includes the maist recent common auncestor o livin birds an crocodilians. It includes twa main clades: Pseudosuchia, whilk includes crocodilians an thair extinct relatives, an Avemetatarsalia, whilk includes birds an thair extinct relatives (lik non-avian dinosaurs an pterosaurs).
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| Archosaurs | |
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| Birds an crocodilians (in this case a yellow-billed stork an a Nile crocodile) are the anerly livin archosaur groups. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Crurotarsi |
| Clade: | Archosauria Cope, 1869 |
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Arctopoda Haeckel, 1895 | |
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