英语词汇“thecodont”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

thecodont

/ˈθiːkə(ʊ)dɒnt

noun

A fossil quadrupedal or partly bipedal reptile of the Triassic period, having teeth fixed in sockets in the jaw. Thecodonts are ancestral to the dinosaurs and other archosaurs.

Order Thecodontia, subdivision Archosauria.

When I was a kid growing up, my books on dinosaurs, when describing the Triassic period, featured drawings and descriptions of small bipedal thecodonts, looking like miniature theropod dinosaurs....

The Triassic thecodonts had given rise to the dinosaurs and pterosaurs in the late Triassic, and these now gave rise to an extraordinary range of adaptations to new habitats.
Minimally, this specimen proves that the most featherlike structures in a non-avian Mesozoic vertebrate are found in a late Triassic basal archosaur, a thecodont.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from modern Latin Thecodontia, from Greek thēkē 'case' + odous, odont- 'tooth'.

单词	thecodont
释义	thecodont /ˈθiːkə(ʊ)dɒnt / noun A fossil quadrupedal or partly bipedal reptile of the Triassic period, having teeth fixed in sockets in the jaw. Thecodonts are ancestral to the dinosaurs and other archosaurs. Order Thecodontia, subdivision Archosauria. When I was a kid growing up, my books on dinosaurs, when describing the Triassic period, featured drawings and descriptions of small bipedal thecodonts, looking like miniature theropod dinosaurs.... The Triassic thecodonts had given rise to the dinosaurs and pterosaurs in the late Triassic, and these now gave rise to an extraordinary range of adaptations to new habitats. Minimally, this specimen proves that the most featherlike structures in a non-avian Mesozoic vertebrate are found in a late Triassic basal archosaur, a thecodont. Origin Mid 19th century: from modern Latin Thecodontia, from Greek thēkē 'case' + odous, odont- 'tooth'.
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