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Definition of Nothosaur
1. Noun. Extinct marine reptile with longer more slender limbs than plesiosaurs and less completely modified for swimming.
Group relationships: Genus Nothosaurus
Definition of Nothosaur
1. Noun. Any of several extinct marine reptiles, of the order ''Nothosauroidea'', from the Triassic period ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nothosaur
Literary usage of Nothosaur
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1875)
"... or Swimming Saurians of the Triassic— the nothosaur type — had the open skull
of a Batrachian ; but, in the Jurassic, the group rose to the higher grade ..."
2. The Ancient Life-history of the Earth: A Comprehensive Outline of the by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1898)
"... and the characters of its dental apparatus indicate that it was much more
peaceful in its habits than its asso ciates the nothosaur and Si- ..."
3. Palaeontology or a systematic summary of extinct animals and their by Richard Owen (1861)
"... to the interorbital regions much more than in the nothosaur, and the depth of
the skull behind the orbit is greater in proportion to its length. ..."
4. Water Reptiles of the Past and Present by Samuel Wendell Williston (1914)
"It was von Meyer, however, who first introduced a nothosaur to the scientific
world under the name ..."
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