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Definition of Plesiosauria
1. Noun. Any of the plesiosaurs.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Order Sauropterygia, Sauropterygia
Member holonyms: Genus Plesiosaurus
Definition of Plesiosauria
1. n. pl. An extinct order of Mesozoic marine reptiles including the genera Plesiosaurus, and allied forms; -- called also Sauropterygia.
Medical Definition of Plesiosauria
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Plesiosauria
Literary usage of Plesiosauria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Creation, Or, the Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Edwin Ray Lankester (1892)
"Sea-dragons (plesiosauria and Ichthyosauria). — Lizards, Serpents, and Crocodiles.
— Tortoises (Chelonia). — Flying Dragons (Pterosauria). ..."
2. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"plesiosauria. Extinct aquatic forms from the mesozoic, some of them forty feet long.
They had long necks; limbs were swimming paddles ..."
3. Water Reptiles of the Past and Present by Samuel Wendell Williston (1914)
"... gave the name plesiosauria to the aquatic reptiles described by Conybeare,
Cuvier, and others, ..."
4. The History of Creation, Or, the Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Edwin Ray Lankester (1892)
"Sea-dragons (plesiosauria and Ichthyosauria). — Lizards, Serpents, and Crocodiles.
— Tortoises (Chelonia). — Flying Dragons (Pterosauria). ..."
5. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"plesiosauria. Extinct aquatic forms from the mesozoic, some of them forty feet long.
They had long necks; limbs were swimming paddles ..."
6. Water Reptiles of the Past and Present by Samuel Wendell Williston (1914)
"... gave the name plesiosauria to the aquatic reptiles described by Conybeare,
Cuvier, and others, ..."
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