Definition of Diapsida

1. Noun. Used in former classifications to include all living reptiles except turtles; superseded by the two subclasses Lepidosauria and Archosauria.

Exact synonyms: Subclass Diapsida
Generic synonyms: Reptile, Reptilian

Lexicographical Neighbors of Diapsida

Diann
Dianna
Dianne
Dianthus
Dianthus barbatus
Dianthus caryophyllus
Dianthus chinensis
Dianthus chinensis heddewigii
Dianthus deltoides
Dianthus latifolius
Dianthus plumarius
Dianthus supurbus
Diapensiaceae
Diapensiales
Diapheromera femorata
Diapsida (current term)
Diaptomus
Dias
Diaspididae
Diaspora
Diatomophyceae
Diaz
Dibothriocephalus
Dibothriocephalus latus
Dibranchia
Dicamptodon ensatus
Dicamptodontidae
Dicentra canadensis
Dicentra cucullaria
Dicentra spectabilis

Literary usage of Diapsida

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1919)
"... to the subclasses previously proposed by Osborn, namely, the Synapsida and the Diapsida, making a fourfold grand division of the Reptilia. ..."

2. Contributions by Walker Museum of Paleontology, University of Chicago (1917)
"He has called them the Diapsida, and there is no better name for them. After the elimination of the forms which we are sure do not belong with them, ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"The grouping of the reptiles into two subclasses, the Diapsida and Synapsida. based chiefly upon the temporal structure, is rejected by most students of the ..."

4. Revision of the Pelycosauria of North America by Ermine Cowles Case (1907)
"In the same year Osborn & McGregor presented their paper on the divisions of the Reptilia (112). All the reptiles were divided into subclasses, the Diapsida ..."

5. Herpetology of Japan and Adjacent Territory by Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1907)
"1] The existing reptiles are divided by Dr. HF Osborn into two subclasses, Diapsida and Synapsida. To the latter belongs only one existing order, viz, ..."

6. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1917)
"The consensus of opinion is that this ancestral type was nearly related to the primitive Archosauria (Diapsida), or two-arched reptiles, and was very widely ..."

7. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1904)
"There is no question that the mammals are affiliated with the subclass Synapsida rather than with the Diapsida; ..."

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