Red panda and three-toed sloth at left, Tanystropheus and Moschops at right, also Procynosuchus and Sphenodon. From Wordnik.com. [Toys toys toys] Reference
Other species found on these islands include tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus), Duvaucel's gecko (Hoplodactylus duvauceli), chevron skink (Leiopisma homalotum). From Wordnik.com. [Northland temperate kauri forests] Reference
Two remaining species, Sphenodon punctatus and S. guntheri, are confined to 30 predator-free offshore islands where the New Zealand Department of Conservation is hoping the species 'small populations will rebound. From Wordnik.com. [Biological diversity in New Zealand] Reference
But in the middle of the nineteenth century, as the subcontinent of Australia and its surrounding territory came to be explored, a flurry of zoological interest centered upon a lizard native to the area, the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatum). From Wordnik.com. [LSD and the Third Eye] Reference
We examined Maori traditional ecological knowledge of tuatara (Sphenodon spp., reptiles that resemble lizards but are the last living representatives of the order Sphenodontia) through semidirected interviews of elders of Te Atiawa, Ngati Koata, and Ngati Wai Iwi (similar to tribes), the guardians of several islands currently inhabited by tuatara. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
Zealand -- the "tuatara" or Sphenodon -- entered its area at a still earlier stage of surface change. From Wordnik.com. [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference
Thus the supratemporal of the lizards (squamosal Auct.) would be the equivalent of the quadratojugal of Sphenodon. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
A sphenodontine (Rhynchocephalia) from the Miocene of New Zealand and paleobiogeography of the tuatara (Sphenodon). From Wordnik.com. [Museum Blogs] Reference
It further resembles the coiTcsponding element in Sphenodon in send - ing upwards a branch for union with the parietal. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
It differs from Sphenodon and resembles closely the Theriodonta in the absence of an obturator foramen, and in the character of its dentition. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
Tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus), which are unique to New Zealand, are the only survivors of the dinosaur-like reptile species Rhynchocephalia that became extinct about 60 million years ago. From Wordnik.com. [India eNews] Reference
Prohatteria and Proterosaurus occur, the former closely allied to the lizard-like Sphenodon of New Zealand, the latter having its nearest allies in the same group of reptiles -- Rhyncocephala, other forms of which occur in the Trias. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
Sphenodon) that represents a clade of reptiles once widespread, but now restricted to two remaining species found only on the offshore islands of New Zealand. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Sphenodon is out of place in this article. From Wordnik.com. [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference
Sphenodon guntheri number to a mere 400 adults. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Sphenodon, 147. From Wordnik.com. [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference
Diapsida Lizards, Sphenodon, crocodylians, birds, and their extinct relatives. From Wordnik.com. [Drawing a Line in the Academic Sand - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
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