mosasauroidadj.n.
/ˌməʊsəˈsɔːrɔɪd/, U.S. /ˌmoʊsəˈsɔˌrɔɪd/ Palaeontology.
A. adj.
Resembling or of the nature of a mosasaur; of or relating to the group which includes the mosasaurs.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > [adjective] > belonging to Mosasaurus
mosasaurian1849
mosasauroid1849
pythonomorph1873
pythonomorphous1878
pythonomorphic1890
1849 R. Owen in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 5 382 The Mosasauroid family of Lacertian reptiles.
1871 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. (rev. ed.) lxiv. 442 Several other Reptiles, either belonging to the genus Mosasaurus, or nearly allied to it, have been described from the Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks of North America. Recent researches on these Mosasauroid Reptiles..have shown that they possessed fin-like paddles like those of the Ichthyosaur and Plesiosaur.
1890 Science 7 Nov. 262/2 A nearly complete skeleton of one of the mosasauroid reptiles.
1996 Zool. Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 116 407 Skeletal paedomorphosis is recognized as a dominant pattern in the evolution of mosasauroid limbs.
B. n.
A mosasauroid reptile; a marine reptile of the group including the mosasaurs and closely related forms.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > [noun] > genus Mosasaurus > member of
mosasaur1842
mosasauroid1859
pythonomorph1869
mosasaurid1874
mosasaurian1878
1859 R. Owen in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 149 47 The Mosasauroids were..a family of marine lizards so distinct from existing species, as to form the type of a suborder.
1869 Amer. Naturalist 3 90 Some of them [sc. Miocene crocodiles] have been..mistaken for Mosasauroids, but none of the latter are known above the Cretaceous.
1878 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. Oct. 341 Prof. O. C. Marsh has published a reconstruction of the fore limb of the Mosasauroid Lestosaurus simus.
1913 Amer. Naturalist 47 189 The species is said to be related to Platecarpus which is the common mosasaur of Kansas; but we may question whether it is a true mosasauroid.
1997 Nature 17 Apr. 652/2 One of the criteria that they believe link Pachyrhachis and the mosasauroids is the separate astragalus and calcaneum—these elements are fused in all other squamates that possess an ankle.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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