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Germany's great cinema combine, turned from filming the lives of butterflies, bugs, reptilia, to the career of General Feldmarschall Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, President of the German Reich.

From Time Magazine Archive

Take, again, one of these sub-kingdoms, the vertebrata, and we find it composed of five classes, - the mammalia, reptilia, pisces, amphibia, and aves, each of the other sub-kingdoms being similarly divisible. 

From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Chambers, Robert

It has been noted that the extinction of species has been preceded by a great increase in their size, for example, the case of the great reptilia of prehistoric time.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.

The wrist bones in the reptilia usually consist of two rows.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.

He subsequently devoted all his spare time to geology and especially to the fossile reptilia, describing many remains of Dinosaurs, to our knowledge of which as well as of other Saurians he largely contributed.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various