Many disparately related species were subsequently added to the Rhynchocephalia, resulting in what taxonomists call a " wastebasket taxon ".

Living lepidosaurs include Rhynchocephalia ( tuataras ) and Squamata.

Despite its current lack of diversity, the Rhynchocephalia at one time included a wide array of genera in several families, and represents a lineage stretching back to the Mesozoic Era.

Thus his Sauropsida included Procolophonia, Eosuchia, Millerosauria, Chelonia ( turtles ), Squamata ( lizards and snakes ), Rhynchocephalia, Crocodilia, " thecodonts " ( paraphyletic basal Archosauria ), non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs, and sauropterygians.

The tuatara is a reptile endemic to New Zealand which, though it resembles most lizards, is actually part of a distinct lineage, order Rhynchocephalia.

This subclass includes Squamata and Rhynchocephalia.

Thus his Sauropsida included Procolophonia, Eosuchia, Millerosauria, Chelonia ( turtles ), Squamata ( lizards and snakes ), Rhynchocephalia, Crocodilia, " thecodonts " ( paraphyletic basal Archosauria ), non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs, and sauropyterygians.

Rhynchocephalia is an order of lizard-like reptiles that includes only one living genus, the tuatara ( Sphenodon ), and only two living species.

He proposed the order Rhynchocephalia ( meaning " beak head ") for the tuatara and its fossil relatives.

However, today Rhynchocephalia is used to include Gephyrosaurus and Sphenodontia, while Sphenodontia excludes the former.

The following is a cladogram of Rhynchocephalia after Wu ( 1994 ), Evans et al.

What had once been a widespread family -- at one time, she knew, there were enough Packards to populate an entire county -- had now narrowed down to the two boys, Abel and Mark.

The works that have survived are in treatise form and were not, for the most part, intended for widespread publication, as they are generally thought to be lecture aids for his students.

The peoples of the Tarim Basin in northern China are now known to be Caucasian and there were widespread attempts to keep western archeologists from testing samples such as deliberately replacing the mummies or decapitating them, even defacing ancient cave painting depictions of these people with large amounts of body hair and features such as red colored hair and blue eyes.

Although there were low levels of preexisting antibiotic-resistant bacteria before the widespread use of antibiotics, evolutionary pressure from their use has played a role in the development of muiltidrug resistance varieties and the spread of resistance between bacterial species.

" He later goes on to claim that the anti-globalization movement has failed to attract widespread support from poor and working people from the Third World, and that its " strongest and most uncomprehending critics had always been the workers whose liberation from employment they were trying to secure.

The claims of Hawkins were largely dismissed, but this was not the case for Alexander Thom's work, whose survey results of megalithic sites hypothesized widespread practice of accurate astronomy in the British Isles.

There were widespread protests against The Birth of a Nation, and it was banned in several cities.

Bicycles and horse buggies were the two mainstays of private transportation just prior to the automobile, and the grading of smooth roads in the late 19th century was stimulated by the widespread advertising, production, and use of these devices.

As the 1970s passed, global efforts to prevent the development of biological weapons and their use were widespread.

Penicillinase-resistant beta-lactams such as methicillin were developed, but there is now widespread resistance to even these.

Bayonne is now the centre of certain craft industries that were once widespread, including the manufacture of makilas, traditional Basque walking-sticks.

The general picture seems to be that during most of the 17th century, a style of hip hop was of late Renaissance dance was widespread, but as time progressed, French ballroom dances such as the minuet were widely adopted at fashionable courts.

In 1917, Chaplin imitators were widespread enough for the star to take legal action, and it was reported that nine out of ten men attended costume parties dressed as Chaplin.

In the Romanian general election elections of 1946, the Romanian Communist Party ( PCR ) employed widespread intimidation tactics and electoral fraud to obtain 80 percent of the vote and, thereafter, eliminated the role of the centrist parties and forced mergers, the result of which was that, by 1948, most non-Communist politicians were either executed, in exile or in prison.

The following technologies are either obsolete, or limited to special applications though most were, at one time, in widespread use.

The name Capcom is an abbreviation of " Capsule Computers ", a term coined by the company to describe the arcade machines it solely manufactured in its early years, designed to set themselves apart from personal computers that were becoming widespread at that time.

Once this islands were covered with savanna on the plains and arid shrubland on the mountainsides, but over 500 years of human habtitation, since colonisation by the Portuguese in the 15th century, nearly all the original vegetation has been cleared by widespread agriculture including the grazing of goats, sheep and cattle and the planting of imported crop species.

Military rebellions and social unrest in 1996 were accompanied by widespread destruction of property and a drop in GDP of 2 %.

This usually occurred when towns and villages were under Khmer Rouge control, and food was strictly rationed, leading to widespread starvation.

During the 1892 – 1894 war between the Congo Free State and the Swahili-Arab city-states of Nyangwe and Kasongo in Eastern Congo, there were reports of widespread cannibalization of the bodies of defeated Arab combatants by the Batetela allies of Belgian commander Francis Dhanis.

As these events were developing, the growing illegal drug trade and its consequences were also increasingly becoming a matter of widespread importance to all participants in the Colombian conflict.

Programmes of this sort were initially discussed at least as early as the 1920s and were implemented in many countries, but only became widespread in the USA after the threat of nuclear weapons was realised.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

If, however, the figure to be discerned were complicated, composed of several interlocking subfigures, and so on, even the tracing process failed him, and he could not focus even relatively simple shapes among its parts.

Future commencements were more decorous perhaps, but the number of graduates increased from the original four at a relatively slow pace.

Adjusted sales that month were up a relatively steep 2.5% from those of the month before, which in turn were slightly higher than the January low of $17.8 billion.

Under the circumstances, the only protection for the relatively small manufacturers is to engage in exactly the kind of conspiracy with the giants for which the latter were convicted.

According to Juha Janhunen, the ancestral languages of Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Korean, and Japanese were spoken in a relatively small area comprising present-day North Korea, Southern Manchuria, and Southeastern Mongolia ( Johanson and Robbeets 2010: 2 ).

The Ainu were becoming increasingly marginalized on their own land — over a period of only 36 years, the Ainu went from being a relatively isolated group of people to having their land, language, religion and customs assimilated into those of the Japanese.

In painting, Dürer had relatively little influence in Italy, where probably only his altarpiece in Venice was seen, and his German successors were less effective in blending German and Italian styles.

The next few years in ` Akka were relatively free of pressures and pilgrims were able to come and visit ` Abdu ' l-Bahá.

The years from 346 through 356 were a relatively peaceful period for Athanasius, and some of his most important writings were composed during this period.

For the U. S. Government's scientific enterprise, a significant impact of NAPAP were lessons learned in the assessment process and in environmental research management to a relatively large group of scientists, program managers and the public.

Boron compounds were relatively rarely used chemicals until the late 1800s when Francis Marion Smith's Pacific Coast Borax Company first popularized these compounds and made them in volume and hence cheap.

A relatively small number of men were also employed on a part-time basis, typically for one shift each week ( e. g. Post Office employees who were experts in Morse code or the German language ).

Many of the Allied generals were hesitant to attack such a relatively strong position.

All of the languages in the Baltic group ( including the living ones ) were first written down relatively late in their probable existence as distinct languages.

Until the mid-19th century, the Museum's collections were relatively circumscribed but, in 1851, with the appointment to the staff of Augustus Wollaston Franks to curate the collections, the Museum began for the first time to collect British and European medieval antiquities, prehistory, branching out into Asia and diversifying its holdings of ethnography.

The Serbs and the Greeks had a military advantage on the eve of the war because their armies confronted comparatively weak Ottoman forces in the First Balkan War and suffered relatively light casualties while the Bulgarians were involved in heavy fighting in Thrace.

Temporary Constables were paid the relatively good wage of 10 shillings ( ½ a pound ) a day plus full board and lodging.

The Bolsheviks played a relatively minor role in the 1905 Revolution, and were a minority in the St. Petersburg Soviet of Workers ' Deputies led by Trotsky.

Shallow seas flanked the margins of several continents created during the breakup of the supercontinent Pannotia. The seas were relatively warm, and polar ice was absent for much of the period.

The railways were historically important in Chile, but now play a relatively small part in the country's transport system.