class reptilia

1. Class of cold-blooded air-breathing vertebrates with completely ossified skeleton and a body usually covered with scales or horny plates;
   Once the dominant land animals (synset 101663360)
   is a type of: class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
   member holonym:

   • reptile, reptilian - any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms
   • anapsida, subclass anapsida - oldest known reptiles; turtles and extinct Permian forms
   • lepidosauria, subclass lepidosauria - diapsid reptiles: lizards; snakes; tuataras
   • archosauria, subclass archosauria - a large subclass of diapsid reptiles including: crocodiles; alligators; dinosaurs; pterosaurs; plesiosaurs; ichthyosaurs; thecodonts
   • subclass synapsida, synapsida - extinct reptiles of the Permian to Jurassic considered ancestral to mammals
   belongs to: craniata, subphylum craniata, subphylum vertebrata, vertebrata - fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals
   same as: reptilia

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