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dicynodont::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | protomammal, therapsid |
Examples of dicynodont
dicynodont
This led on to PhD studies at Queens'College, Cambridge, where he conducted research on the dicynodont Tetragonias.
From the guardian.co.uk
Schneider had found what looked like a humerus curved inside the rock, probably from a dicynodont, a tusked and lumbering hog-sized creature that likely lived in packs.
From the newsobserver.com
Cruickshank delighted in the wealth of unstudied dicynodont fossils and produced definitive work on dicynodonts and early archosaurs, and on the wider succession of life in Permo-Triassic times.
From the guardian.co.uk
- A kind of therapsid
- The Dicynodontia are a taxon of therapsids or mammal-like reptiles. Dicynodonts were small to large herbivorous animals with two tusks, hence their name, which means 'two dog tooth'. ...
- (Dicynodonts) mammal-like reptiles resembling pigs or hippos, but with a powerful beak, like a turtle, and a pair of tusks, like a walrus. These bizarre plant-eaters flourished worldwide before declining to extinction in the Late Triassic, about 220 million years ago. ...
