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单词 archosaurian
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archosaurianadj.n.

/ɑːkəʊˈsɔːrɪən/
Etymology: < modern Latin Archosauria (see definition), < Greek ἀρχός chief + Sauria n.: see -ian suffix.
Palaeontology and Zoology.
A. adj.
Belonging to or characteristic of the subclass Archosauria of reptiles, which includes crocodilians and extinct groups like dinosaurs and pterosaurs.
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archosaurian1888
1888 R. Lydekker Catal. Fossil Reptilia Brit. Mus. I. 1 (heading) Archosaurian branch [of Class Reptilia].
1933 A. S. Romer Vertebr. Paleontol. viii. 163 The archosaurian bipedal pose.
1977 A. Hallam Planet Earth 270 The commonest skull type is diapsid, present not only in lizards and snakes but also in the great group of archosaurian reptiles—the dinosaurs and their ancestors the thecodonts, their relatives the crocodiles and pterosaurs, and their descendants, the birds.
1979 Sci. Amer. Oct. 129/1 Of all the archosaurian reptiles only the crocodilians survived, apparently little affected by whatever proved fatal to many other animals.
B. n.
= archosaur n.
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archosaurian1909
archosaur1933
1909 in Cent. Dict. Suppl.
1964 T. J. Parker & W. A. Haswell Text-bk. Zool. (ed. 7) II. 498 The archosaurians form an assembly of reptiles which differ widely from the lepidosaurian Eosuchia, Rhynchocephalia, and Squamata.
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