Definition of Nothosauria

1. Noun. A suborder of Sauropterygia.

Exact synonyms: Suborder Nothosauria
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Order Sauropterygia, Sauropterygia
Member holonyms: Genus Nothosaurus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nothosauria

Nostratic
Nostraticist
Notch
Notechis
Notechis scutatus
Notemigonus
Notemigonus crysoleucas
Nothofagus
Nothofagus cuninghamii
Nothofagus dombeyi
Nothofagus menziesii
Nothofagus obliqua
Nothofagus procera
Nothofagus solanderi
Nothofagus truncata
Nothosauria
Notoedres cati
Notomys
Notonecta
Notonecta undulata
Notonectidae
Notornis mantelli
Notoryctidae
Notoryctus
Notoryctus typhlops
Notostraca
Notowitz
Notropis
Notropis atherinoides
Notropis cornutus

Literary usage of Nothosauria

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

1. Water Reptiles of the Past and Present by Samuel Wendell Williston (1914)
"Of this order then there are two clearly marked divisions or suborders, the Plesiosauria and the nothosauria, the former having a complete aquatic ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"(nothosauria Seeley 1882.) Suborder Plesiosauria auct. ex Quenstedt 1852. Order Testudinata auct. ex Shaw 1802. Suborder Pleurodira auct. ex Duméril and ..."

3. Fieldiana: Geology by Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago Natural History Museum (1907)
"... have united along the whole median line, as in the nothosauria, or that they should have closed up in front of the basisphenoid, as in the Chelonia. ..."

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