Chapter 34, Problem 9IQ

Summary Introduction

To list: Several adaptations for flight found in birds.

Introduction: Archosaurs are diapsids amniotes group. The living representatives of archosaurs consist of crocodilians and birds. Archosaurs group also includes all extinct relatives of crocodilian, extinct dinosaurs, and pterosaurs. Based on the numerous shared features or synapomorphies, the archosaurs group is distinguished from other tetrapods.