Definition of Genus Dimetrodon

1. Noun. A reptile genus of Pelycosauria.

Generic synonyms: Reptile Genus
Group relationships: Order Pelycosauria, Pelycosauria
Member holonyms: Dimetrodon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Dimetrodon

genus Dichondra
genus Dicranopteris
genus Dicranum
genus Dicrostonyx
genus Dictamnus
genus Dictostylium
genus Dictyophera
genus Didelphis
genus Dieffenbachia
genus Diervilla
genus Difflugia
genus Digitalis
genus Digitaria
genus Dillenia
genus Dimetrodon (current term)
genus Dimocarpus
genus Dimorphotheca
genus Dinornis
genus Diodon
genus Diomedea
genus Dionaea
genus Dioon
genus Dioscorea
genus Diospyros
genus Diphylla
genus Dipladenia
genus Diplococcus
genus Diplodocus
genus Diplopterygium

Literary usage of Genus Dimetrodon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"... with a description of the genus Dimetrodon Cope..' This reminds us afresh of the great loss Paleontology has sustained in this country, ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1905)
"... genus Dimetrodon. By EC CASE Subscription—Five Dollars per Volume Separate parts are not sold Address THE LIBRARIAN OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ..."

3. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1904)
"THE OSTEOLOGY OF THE SKULL OF THE PELYCO- SAURIAN GENUS, DIMETRODON. DURING the summer of 1904 the author collected in the Permian beds of Texas two skulls ..."

4. Revision of the Pelycosauria of North America by Ermine Cowles Case (1907)
"Genus DIMETRODON Cope. Proc. Am. Phil. Soc., vol. xvn, 1878, p. 512 and p. 529. ... The genus Dimetrodon embraces larger forms than the known species of ..."

5. Geologisches Zentralblatt (1908)
"J. Cicol., vol. 12. pp. 304—311, 6 figs., 1904. The Permian beds of Texas have afforded to the author two skulls of the genus Dimetrodon of the suborder ..."

6. Contributions by Chicago (Ill.). University. Walker Museum of Paleontology (1904)
"THE OSTEOLOGY OF THE SKULL OF THE PELYCO SAURIAN GENUS, DIMETRODON. DURING the summer of 1904 the author collected in the Permian beds of Texas two skulls ..."

7. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"... with a description of the genus Dimetrodon. Cope. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., (2), XX, pp. 1-62. CASE, EC '98. The significance of certain changes in the ..."

8. Evolution of Mammalian Molar Teeth by Henry Fairfield Osborn (1907)
"This division is indicated merely by a depression at the base of the crown, as in the genus Dimetrodon, ..."

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