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Mosasaur :: Mosasaur (n.) Alt. of Mosasauria.

Ichthyopterygia :: Ichthyopterygia (n. pl.) See Ichthyosauria.

Stegosaurus :: Stegosauria (n. pl.) An extinct order of herbivorous dinosaurs, including the genera Stegosaurus, Omosaurus, and their allies..

Ornithosauria :: Ornithosauria (n. pl.) An order of extinct flying reptiles; -- called also Pterosauria.

Sauropoda :: Sauropoda (n. pl.) An extinct order of herbivorous dinosaurs having the feet of a saurian type, instead of birdlike, as they are in many dinosaurs. It includes the largest known land animals, belonging to Brontosaurus, Camarasaurus, and allied genera. See Illustration in Appendix..

Laelaps :: Laelaps (n.) A genus of huge, carnivorous, dinosaurian reptiles from the Cretaceous formation of the United States. They had very large hind legs and tail, and are supposed to have been bipedal. Some of the species were about eighteen feet high..

Halisauria :: Halisauria (n. pl.) The Enaliosauria.

Plesiosaurian :: Plesiosaurian (n.) A plesiosaur.

Pelicosauria :: Pelicosauria (n. pl.) A suborder of Theromorpha, including terrestrial reptiles from the Permian formation..

Lepidosauria :: Lepidosauria (n. pl.) A division of reptiles, including the serpents and lizards; the Plagiotremata..

Compsognathus :: Compsognathus (n.) A genus of Dinosauria found in the Jurassic formation, and remarkable for having several birdlike features..

Saurian :: Saurian (a.) Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, the Sauria..

Dinosaur :: Dinosaur (n.) Alt. of Dinosauria.

Enaliosaur :: Enaliosaur (n.) One of the Enaliosauria.

Mosasauria :: Mosasauria (n. pl.) An order of large, extinct, marine reptiles, found in the Cretaceous rocks, especially in America. They were serpentlike in form and in having loosely articulated and dilatable jaws, with large recurved tteth, but they had paddlelike feet. Some of them were over fifty feet long. They are, essentially, fossil sea serpents with paddles. Called also Pythonomarpha, and Mosasauria..

Dinosauria :: Dinosauria (n. pl.) An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike characters in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind limbs. Some walked on their three-toed hind feet, thus producing the large bird tracks, so-called, of mesozoic sandstones; others were five-toed and quadrupedal. See Illust. of Compsognathus, also Illustration of Dinosaur in Appendix..

Thecodontia :: Thecodontia (n. pl.) A group of fossil saurians having biconcave vertebrae and the teeth implanted in sockets.

Saurian :: Saurian (n.) One of the Sauria.

Ichthyosaurian :: Ichthyosaurian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Ichthyosauria.

Enaliosaurian :: Enaliosaurian (a.) Pertaining to the Enaliosauria.

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