Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various dinosaurs of the order Saurischia, having a pubic bone that points down and forward like that of modern reptiles, and including the sauropods, such as apatosaurus, and the theropods, such as T. rex.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to the Saurischia.
- noun A member of the Saurischia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
dinosaur of the orderSaurischia - adjective Characteristic of these dinosaurs
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur having a three-pronged pelvis like that of a crocodile
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"Nothing wrong with publishing frequently on Nature's most noble creatures, the saurischian dinosaurs."
Happy first birthday Tetrapod Zoology (part II) Darren Naish 2007
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Also love all this basal-saurischian stuff, Albertonykus!
Life's Time Capsule: me, 3D and Plateosaurus... davidmaas 2009
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So did theropods, by the way, so it's probably the saurischian ancestral condition.
Life's Time Capsule: me, 3D and Plateosaurus... davidmaas 2009
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Nothing wrong with publishing frequently on Nature's most noble creatures, the saurischian dinosaurs.
Happy first birthday Tetrapod Zoology (part II) Darren Naish 2007
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A nomenclature for vertebral laminae in sauropods and other saurischian dinosaurs.
‘Angloposeidon’, the unreported story, part II Darren Naish 2006
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A nomenclature for vertebral laminae in sauropods and other saurischian dinosaurs.
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Nesbitt SJ, Smith ND, Irmis RB, Turner AH, Downs A, et al. (2009) A complete skeleton of a Late Triassic saurischian and the early evolution of dinosaurs.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Joseph J. W. Sertich et al. 2010
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Wilson JA (1999) A nomenclature for vertebral laminae in sauropods and other saurischian dinosaurs.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Joseph J. W. Sertich et al. 2010
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They were preyed upon by large theropods (Ceratosaurs, Megalosaurs, and Allosaurs) - all of them belonging to the 'lizard hipped' or saurischian branch of the dinosaurs.
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Colbert EH (1964) Relationships of saurischian dinosaurs.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Joseph J. W. Sertich et al. 2010
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