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Essai d’une classification naturelle des reptiles

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  • Alexandre Brongniart, plaster medallion by David d'Angers
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    …early papers is the “Essai d’une classification naturelle des reptiles” (1800; “Essay on the Natural Classification of Reptiles”), in which he divided the class Reptilia into four orders: Batrachia (now a separate class, Amphibia), Chelonia, Ophidia, and Sauria. He made the first systematic study of trilobites, an extinct group…

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