Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or relating to the Archosauria.
- noun A member of that group.
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- noun
archosaur .
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- adjective of or relating to reptiles of the subclass Archosauria
- noun extinct reptiles including: dinosaurs; plesiosaurs; pterosaurs; ichthyosaurs; thecodonts
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mike Hanson a.k.a "archosaurian" on DeviantArt - all his pterosaur skeletals and life restorations show wings attached to the body but not the legs.
Life's Time Capsule: Questions about Pterosaurs #1 Peter Bond 2009
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The development of archosaurian first-generation teeth in a chicken mutant.
Secondary Addiction, part 3: Ann Coulter on Evolution - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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That is, Feduccia 2002 hypothesizes that dromaeosaurs are birds that are extraordinarily convergent with theropod dinosaurs, and that birds, including dromaeosaurs, originated from an early archosaurian ancestor and are still not closely linked to theropod dinosaurs.
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Galton PM (2007) Notes on the remains of archosaurian reptiles, mostly basal sauropodomorph dinosaurs, from the 1834 fissure fill (Rhaetian, Upper Triassic) at Clifton in Bristol, southwest England.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Joseph J. W. Sertich et al. 2010
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On land, large archosaurian reptiles remained dominant.
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On land, mammals were still a relatively minor component of the fauna that was dominated by archosaurian reptiles, especially dinosaurs, which were at their most diverse.
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Stock trading the cheilanthes of the fatality and arthur out at a unlittered rhodes archosaurian thou by our editorial at kid styrofoam.
Rational Review 2009
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