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Squamate (noun) means a reptile belonging to the group that includes lizards and snakes.

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A reptile belonging to the group that includes lizards and snakes.

"In particular, dinosaurs did not participate in the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution, some 130 to 100 Ma, when flowering plants, leaf-eating insects, social insects, squamates, and many other modern groups radiated substantially." — Michael J. Benton, The Red Queen and the Court Jester: Species Diversity and the Role of Biotic and Abiotic Factors Through Time (2009)

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