When do lizards appear and radiate in the fossil record?
A) Lizards appeared in the Permian and rapidly radiated to give rise to the dinosaurs that dominated the next time periods.
B) Lizards appeared in the Jurassic but did not radiate until the Cretaceous when dinosaurs were near the end of their reign.
C) Lizards appeared in the Jurassic as a branch of small dinosaurs and radiated rapidly in the Cretaceous.
D) Lizards appeared in the Cretaceous and rapidly radiated.
E) Snakes took to the surface in the Permian and gradual selection for limbs allowed lizards to radiate in the Triassic.
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