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Meaning of "is a clade"

is a clade - This phrase is used in the field of biological taxonomy and refers to a grouping of organisms that includes an ancestral species and all of its descendants, recognized as a branch on a phylogenetic tree

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Rhabdodontomorpha is a clade of basal iguanodont dinosaurs.
Pachycephalosauria ( ; from Greek παχυκέφαλοσαυρος for ' thick headed lizards ' ) is a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs.
Ornithoscelida is a clade that includes various major groupings of dinosaurs.
The family Centrolenidae is a clade of anurans.
Brevirostres is a clade of crocodilians that includes alligatoroids and crocodyloids.
Cerapoda ( " ceratopsians and ornithopods " ) is a clade of the dinosaur order Ornithischia.
Poposauroidea is a clade of advanced pseudosuchians archosaurs closer to crocodilians than to dinosaurs.
Stereospondylomorpha is a clade of temnospondyls.
Neomura is a clade composed of the two domains of life of Archaea and Eukaryota.
Leptosuchomorpha is a clade of phytosaurs.
Orionides is a clade of tetanuran theropod dinosaurs from the Middle Jurassic to the Present.
Cypselomorphae is a clade of birds.
Aparaglossata is a clade of insects comprising all modern holometabolous insects except for Hymenoptera.
Cryptoclidia is a clade of plesiosaurs.
Dinosauriformes is a clade of archosaurian reptiles that include the dinosaurs and their most immediate relatives.

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Neotherapsida is a clade of therapsids.
Gekkonomorpha is a clade of lizards that includes geckos and their closest relatives.
Flagellicaudata is a clade of Dinosauria.
Retaria is a clade within the supergroup Rhizaria containing the Foraminifera and the Radiolaria.
The phylogenetic sister group of Encelia is a clade comprising the genera Enceliopsis and Geraea.
Globidonta is a clade of alligatoroids that includes alligators, caimans, and closely related extinct forms.
Neornithischia ( " new ornithischians " ) is a clade of the dinosaur order Ornithischia.
Medusozoa is a clade in the phylum Cnidaria, and is often considered a subphylum.
Avifilopluma ( " bird filoplumes " ) is a clade containing all animals with feathers.
Maniraptoriformes is a clade of dinosaurs with pennaceous feathers and wings that contains ornithomimosaurs and maniraptors.
Burnetiamorpha is a clade of biarmosuchian therapsids.
Euskelia is a clade of extinct Temnospondyl amphibians.
Limnarchia is a clade of temnospondyls.
Pandermochelys is a clade of sea turtles belonging to the superfamily Chelonioidea.
Olsoniformes is a clade of dissorophoid temnospondyls.
Scylacosauria is a clade of therocephalian therapsids.
Borophagini is a clade or tribe of the subfamily Borophaginae.
Aristonectinae is a clade of plesiosaurs in the family Elasmosauridae.
Typothoracisinae is a clade of aetosaurs within the subfamily Aetosaurinae.
Hypsogastropoda is a clade containing marine gastropods within the clade Caenogastropoda.
Proterochampsia is a clade of early archosauriform reptiles from the Triassic period.
Pancheloniidae is a clade of sea turtles belonging to the sea turtle superfamily Chelonioidea.
Kritosaurini is a clade of saurolophine hadrosaurid dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous.
Metapterygota is a clade of winged insects containing order Odonata and Infraclass Neoptera.
Pterobranchia is a clade of small worm-shaped animals.
Opisthocoelicaudiinae is a clade of titanosaurian dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous, ranked as a subfamily.
Gravisauria is a clade of sauropod dinosaurs consisting of some genera, Vulcanodontidae and Eusauropoda.
Stegosauridae is a clade of thyreophoran dinosaurs ( armoured dinosaurs ) within the suborder Stegosauria.
Aspinothoracidi is a clade of placoderms, extinct armored fish most diverse during the Devonian.
Pan-Alcidae is a clade of charadriiform birds containing the auks and their extinct relatives.
Myoglossata is a clade within suborder Glossata within order Lepidoptera, the butterflies and moths.
Placodontiformes is a clade of sauropterygian marine reptiles that includes placodonts and the non-placodont Palatodonta.
Although Dinosauria is a clade which includes modern birds, this article covers only Mesozoic stratigraphic units.
Eupolypods II is a clade of ferns in the order Polypodiales, under the class Polypodiopsida.
The Platyhelminthes is a clade consisting of two monophyletic groups, Catenulida and Rhabditophora.

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