Rhynchosaurusn.
/ˌrɪŋkə(ʊ)ˈsɔːrəs/, U.S. /ˌrɪŋkəˈsɔrəs/ Palaeontology.
A genus of rhynchosaurs known from European fossils of the middle Triassic period, having a short, broad head; (also rhynchosaurus) a reptile of this genus.
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rhynchosaur1842
Rhynchosaurus1842
rhynchosaurian1861
1842 R. Owen in Rep. 11th Meeting Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1841 145 The biconcave structure unquestionably characterizes the vertebræ of the small Lacertian.., on which the well-marked and distinct genus Rhynchosaurus is founded.
1888 Philos. Trans. 1887 (Royal Soc.) B. 178 207 Rhynchosaurus apparently has teeth on both the palatine and pterygoid bones.
1908 Nature 29 Oct. 674/2 The impressions consist of..footprints of the rhynchocephalid Rhynchosaurus.
1966 A. S. Romer Vertebr. Paleontol. (ed. 3) xxix. 326/1 Later in the period there developed, in Rhynchosaurus and its allies, a peculiar short-lived branch of rather large, strong-beaked reptiles.
2001 Jrnl. Afr. Earth Sci. 33 566/2 Howesia is a probable sister taxon to the clade of Rhynchosaurus,Stenaulorhynchus, Scaphonyx and Hyperodapedon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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