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Chaetopoda
n. pl. · 78% connection
A very extensive order of Annelida, characterized by the presence of lateral setae, or spines, on most or all of the segments. They ar…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extinct, order, marine, reptiles, including.
Cheirotherium
noun · 78% connection
A genus of extinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extinct, order, marine, reptiles, including.
Chelonia
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, peculiar in having a part of the vertebrae, ribs, and sternum united with t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extinct, order, marine, reptiles, including.
Clidastes
noun · 78% connection
A genus of extinct marine reptiles, allied to the Mosasaurus. See Illust. in Appendix.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extinct, order, marine, reptiles, including.
Crocodilia
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of reptiles including the crocodiles, gavials, alligators, and many extinct kinds.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extinct, order, marine, reptiles, including.
Dicynodont
noun · 78% connection
One of a group of extinct reptiles having the jaws armed with a horny beak, as in turtles, and in the genus Dicynodon, supporting also…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extinct, order, marine, reptiles, including.
Dinosauria
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike chara…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extinct, order, marine, reptiles, including.
Elasmosaurus
noun · 78% connection
An extinct, long-necked, marine, cretaceous reptile from Kansas, allied to Plesiosaurus.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extinct, order, marine, reptiles, including.
Enaliosauria
n. pl. · 78% connection
An extinct group of marine reptiles, embracing both the Ichthyosauria and the Plesiosauria, now regarded as distinct orders.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extinct, order, marine, reptiles, including.
Eosaurus
noun · 78% connection
An extinct marine reptile from the coal measures of Nova Scotia; -- so named because supposed to be of the earliest known reptiles.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extinct, order, marine, reptiles, including.
Gallinae
noun · 78% connection
An order of birds, including the common domestic fowls, pheasants, grouse, quails, and allied forms; -- sometimes called Rasores.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extinct, order, marine, reptiles, including.
Ginglymodi
noun · 78% connection
An order of ganoid fishes, including the modern gar pikes and many allied fossil forms. They have rhombic, ganoid scales, a heterocerc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extinct, order, marine, reptiles, including.
Goniatite
noun · 78% connection
One of an extinct genus of fossil cephalopods, allied to the Ammonites. The earliest forms are found in the Devonian formation, the la…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extinct, order, marine, reptiles, including.
Herpetology
noun · 78% connection
The natural history of reptiles; that branch of zoology which relates to reptiles, including their structure, classification, and habi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extinct, order, marine, reptiles, including.
Ichthyosauri
pl. · 78% connection
of Ichthyosaurus
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extinct, order, marine, reptiles, including.
Ichthyosaurus
noun · 78% connection
An extinct genus of marine reptiles; -- so named from their short, biconcave vertebrae, resembling those of fishes. Several species, v…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extinct, order, marine, reptiles, including.
Isospondyli
n. pl. · 78% connection
An extensive order of fishes, including the salmons, herrings, and many allied forms.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extinct, order, marine, reptiles, including.
Labyrinthodonta
n. pl. · 78% connection
An extinct order of Amphibia, including the typical genus Labyrinthodon, and many other allied forms, from the Carboniferous, Permian,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extinct, order, marine, reptiles, including.
