Heterostraci suborder Heterostraci | extinct group of armored jawless fishes or fish-like vertebrate, taxonomy is not clear |
Osteostraci suborder Osteostraci Cephalaspida suborder Cephalaspida | extinct group of armored fish-like vertebrates, taxonomy is not clear |
Petromyzoniformes suborder Petromyzoniformes Hyperoartia suborder Hyperoartia | lampreys as distinguished from hagfishes |
Myxiniformes suborder Myxiniformes Hyperotreta suborder Hyperotreta Myxinoidei Myxinoidea suborder Myxinoidei | hagfishes as distinguished from lampreys |
Oscines suborder Oscines Passeres suborder Passeres | two names for the suborder of typical songbirds |
Menurae suborder Menurae | lyrebirds and scrubbirds |
Eurylaimi suborder Eurylaimi | broadbills |
Tyranni suborder Tyranni | New World flycatchers, antbirds, oven birds, woodhewers |
Clamatores suborder Clamatores | used in some classification systems, a suborder or superfamily nearly coextensive with suborder Tyranni, Passeriformes having relatively simple vocal organs and little power of song, clamatorial birds |
Sauria suborder Sauria Lacertilia suborder Lacertilia | true lizards, including chameleons and geckos |
Thyreophora suborder Thyreophora thyreophoran | armored dinosaurs: stegosaurs and ankylosaurs |
Marginocephalia suborder Marginocephalia marginocephalian | includes boneheaded (pachycephalosaurs) and horned (ceratopsian) dinosaurs |
suborder Pachycephalosaurus | boneheaded dinosaurs, late Cretaceous |
Ceratopsia suborder Ceratopsia | horned dinosaurs |
Euronithopoda suborder Euronithopoda euronithopod Ornithopoda suborder Ornithopoda | widespread group including duck-billed dinosaurs and their early relatives (hadrosaurs, trachodon and iguanodon) |
Sauropodomorpha suborder Sauropodomorpha | gigantic herbivorous dinosaurs having huge bodies with long necks and small heads: Prosauropoda and Sauropoda (apatosaurus, diplodocus and titanosaurs) |
Prosauropoda suborder Prosauropoda | the earliest known dinosaurs |
Sauropoda suborder Sauropoda | any of the sauropod dinosaurs |
Theropoda suborder Theropoda | carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs with short forelimbs, Jurassic and Cretaceous |
suborder Ceratosaura | primitive saurischian dinosaurs |
Carnosaura suborder Carnosaura | largest carnivorous land animals ever known |
Ornithomimida suborder Ornithomimida | lightly built medium-size theropods |
Maniraptora suborder Maniraptora | advanced theropods including oviraptorids and dromaeosaurs and possibly even modern birds |
Plesiosauria suborder Plesiosauria | any of the plesiosaurs |
Nothosauria suborder Nothosauria | a suborder of Sauropterygia |
Serpentes suborder Serpentes Ophidia suborder Ophidia | snakes |
Anseres suborder Anseres | used in some especially older classifications, coextensive with the family Anatidae |
Lipotyphla suborder Lipotyphla | moles, hedgehogs, true shrews |
Menotyphla suborder Menotyphla | elephant shrews, tree shrews |
Alcyonacea suborder Alcyonacea | comprising the soft corals |
Gorgonacea suborder Gorgonacea Gorgoniacea suborder Gorgoniacea | red corals and sea fans |
Brachyura suborder Brachyura | an order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface |
Reptantia suborder Reptantia | lobsters, crabs |
Natantia suborder Natantia | shrimp, prawns, etc. |
Otides suborder Otides | terrestrial game birds of the Old World and Australia: bustards |
Charadrii suborder Charadrii | shorebirds: plovers, sandpipers, avocets, phalaropes, coursers, stone curlews |
Limicolae suborder Limicolae | term used in some classifications for migratory shorebirds, coextensive with the Charadrii |
Lari suborder Lari | gulls, terns, jaegers, skimmers |
Mysticeti suborder Mysticeti | baleen whales: right whales, rorquals, blue whales, humpbacks |
Odontoceti suborder Odontoceti | toothed whales: dolphins, porpoises, sperm whales, beaked whales |
Pinnipedia suborder Pinnipedia | seals, sea lions, walruses |
Megachiroptera suborder Megachiroptera | fruit bats |
Microchiroptera suborder Microchiroptera | most of the bats in the world, all bats except fruit bats insectivorous bats |
Nematocera suborder Nematocera | mosquitoes, fungus gnats, crane flies, gnats, sand flies |
Blattodea suborder Blattodea Blattaria suborder Blattaria | cockroaches, in some classifications considered an order |
Manteodea suborder Manteodea | mantises, in former classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera |
Heteroptera suborder Heteroptera | true bugs |
Homoptera suborder Homoptera | plant lice (aphids), whiteflies, cicadas, leafhoppers, plant hoppers, scale insects and mealybugs, spittle insects |
Megaloptera suborder Megaloptera | in some classifications considered a separate order: alderflies, dobsonflies, snake flies |
Anisoptera suborder Anisoptera | dragonflies |