Hello, I have a question about reptile rider.
To you, crocodilians, giant lizards, and dinosaurs are loyal steeds, not monsters.
Does it mean that I use the bestiary stats and abilities for the creature as loyal steed ?
For the dragon, is it bida, linnorm, wyvern, drake, kongamata, zombe dragon ?
Thanks for your future answer.
You'd use the bestiary stats for your chosen mount, yes... This feat doesn't appear to do anything at all for animal companions since its benefits are things that you get with your companion already (don't need to roll to Command etc). Getting access to trainable animals is firmly "ask your gm" territory, they won't level with you like an animal companion does so you have to keep upgrading them.
What need the character to "control" these creature ?
Diplomacy skill ? Train animal skill feat ?
Bonded Animal skill feat ?
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To you, crocodilians, giant lizards, and dinosaurs are loyal steeds, not monsters.
This is colloquially referred to as "flavor text". You're a Lizardfolk, so riding lizard-like creatures is more thematic than horses or dogs.
You gain the Ride feat, even if you don't meet the prerequisites. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to Nature checks to Handle an Animal as long as the animal is a reptile, dinosaur, or even a non-sapient dragon.
This is colloquially referred to as the "crunch". It's what the feat mechanically gives you.
How you acquire this lizard-like creature is beyond the scope of this feat. It'll most likely be an Animal Companion. It could be a Bonded Animal. Or even something else a GM homebrews.
You would use whatever relevant method for commanding or communicating with them as normal. If you use Command an Animal (the feat erroneously refers to this as "Handle an Animal"), you gain +1 to your roll.
With Cavalier archetype, is it possible to take cavalier dedication feat without animal companion ?
You can choose from animal companions with the mount special ability, as well as any additional options from your pledge, as determined by your GM.
As said "you can choose from animal companions", is this not a requirement/obligation ?
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"You can choose from..." is explaining your options for the first sentence "You gain a young animal companion that serves as your mount." In other words, you gain an animal companion, BUT it must be one with the mount special ability under most circumstances.
Alternatively, you could pick "any additional options from your pledge, as determined by your GM." even if it doesn't have the mount special ability. Though, it still needs to be at least one size larger than you.
When read all together it's fairly clear what the intention of the dedication is. Though, your GM could overrule all of that and allow for a non-standard mount, of course.