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    Tuatara (redirect from Sphenodon guntheri)
    The tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) is a species of reptile endemic to New Zealand. Despite its close resemblance to lizards, it is part of a distinct lineage...
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    lizard-like reptiles that includes only one living species, the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) of New Zealand. Despite its current lack of diversity, during...
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    However, it is represented by only one living species: the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus), a superficially lizard-like reptile native to New Zealand...
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    Rhynchocephalia, comprising taxa most closely related to the living tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus). Historically the taxa included within Sphenodontidae have...
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    2017). "Macroevolutionary patterns in Rhynchocephalia: Is the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) a living fossil?". Palaeontology. 60 (3): 319–328. Bibcode:2017Palgy...
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    (Dermatemys mawii) Snapping turtle (Chelydridae) family Tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus and Sphenodon guntheri) Asian forest tortoise (Manouria emys) Impressed...
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    from the Miocene of New Zealand and palaeobiogeography of the tuatara (Sphenodon)". Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 276 (1660): 1385–90. doi:10.1098/rspb...
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    Jones; et al. (2011). "Hard tissue anatomy of the cranial joints in Sphenodon (Rhynchocephalia): sutures, kinesis, and skull mechanics". Palaeontologia...
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    (2017). "Macroevolutionary patterns in Rhynchocephalia: is the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) a living fossil?". Palaeontology. 60 (3): 319–328. Bibcode:2017Palgy...
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    Skull of the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus), with the pineal foramen enclosed by the parietal bones...
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