单词 | archosaurian |
释义 | archosaurianadj.n. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > archosaurian reptile > [adjective] 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. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > archosaurian reptile > [noun] 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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