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thecodont — noun presumably in the common ancestral line to dinosaurs and crocodiles and birds • Syn: ↑thecodont reptile • Hypernyms: ↑archosaur, ↑archosaurian, ↑archosaurian reptile • Member Holonyms: ↑Thecodontia, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Thecodont — ( socket toothed reptile), now considered an obsolete term, was formerly used to describe a diverse range of early archosaurs that first appeared in the Latest Permian and flourished until the end of the Triassic period. The group includes the… … Wikipedia
reptile — reptilelike, adj. reptiloid /rep tl oyd /, adj. /rep til, tuyl/, n. 1. any cold blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia, comprising the turtles, snakes, lizards, crocodilians, amphisbaenians, tuatara, and various extinct members including the… … Universalium
Reptile — Taxobox fossil range = Carboniferous Recent name = Reptiles image width = 251px image caption = A Rhinoceros Iguana, Cyclura cornuta regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata subphylum = Vertebrata classis = Reptilia classis authority = Laurenti, 1768… … Wikipedia
thecodont — [ θi:kə(ʊ)dɒnt] noun Palaeontology a Triassic fossil reptile of a group ancestral to dinosaurs and other archosaurs. Origin C19: from mod. L. Thecodontia, from Gk thēkē case + odous, odont tooth (because the teeth were fixed in sockets in the… … English new terms dictionary
archosaurian reptile — noun extinct reptiles including: dinosaurs; plesiosaurs; pterosaurs; ichthyosaurs; thecodonts • Syn: ↑archosaur, ↑archosaurian • Derivationally related forms: ↑archosaurian (for: ↑archosaurian), ↑ … Useful english dictionary
archosaur — noun extinct reptiles including: dinosaurs; plesiosaurs; pterosaurs; ichthyosaurs; thecodonts • Syn: ↑archosaurian, ↑archosaurian reptile • Derivationally related forms: ↑archosaurian (for: ↑archosaurian) … Useful english dictionary
archosaurian — I noun extinct reptiles including: dinosaurs; plesiosaurs; pterosaurs; ichthyosaurs; thecodonts • Syn: ↑archosaur, ↑archosaurian reptile • Derivationally related forms: ↑archosaurian (for: ↑archosaur … Useful english dictionary
order Thecodontia — noun extinct terrestrial reptiles having teeth set in sockets; of the late Permian to Triassic • Syn: ↑Thecodontia • Hypernyms: ↑animal order • Member Holonyms: ↑Archosauria, ↑subclass Archosauria … Useful english dictionary
Thecodontia — noun extinct terrestrial reptiles having teeth set in sockets; of the late Permian to Triassic • Syn: ↑order Thecodontia • Hypernyms: ↑animal order • Member Holonyms: ↑Archosauria, ↑subclass Archosauria … Useful english dictionary
