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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A member of the group Placodontia or family Placodontidæ.

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Examples

  • From top to bottom: An Einiosaurus skull draft I'm working on; a Daspletosaurus skull; a Dimorphodon painting acrylics; a cartoon of a Pachyrhinosaurus taking a mud bath, and; Henodus, a turtle-mimic placodont.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Prehistoric Insanity 2009

  • From top to bottom: An Einiosaurus skull draft I'm working on; a Daspletosaurus skull; a Dimorphodon painting acrylics; a cartoon of a Pachyrhinosaurus taking a mud bath, and; Henodus, a turtle-mimic placodont.

    Life's Time Capsule: Member Profile: Zachary Miller Zach 2009

  • I suppose a complete skeleton of the Middle Triassic turtle Priscochelys hegnabrunnensis would help; so far this animal is (apparently) only known from a carapace fragment that's just big enough to tell it's not from a placodont.

    Happy Christmas, from gigantic Spanish sauropods... or, alas, poor ‘Angloposeidon’ Darren Naish 2006

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