Definition of Rhynchocephalia

1. Noun. Tuataras; extinct forms from middle Triassic.

Exact synonyms: Order Rhynchocephalia
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Lepidosauria, Subclass Lepidosauria
Member holonyms: Genus Sphenodon, Sphenodon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhynchocephalia

Rhus laurina
Rhus ovata
Rhus quercifolia
Rhus radicans
Rhus rhodanthema
Rhus toxicodendron antigen
Rhus toxicodenedron
Rhus trilobata
Rhus typhina
Rhus venenata antigen
Rhus verniciflua
Rhus vernix
Rhyacian
Rhyacotriton
Rhyacotriton olympicus
Rhynchocephalia
Rhynchoelaps
Rhynchoelaps australis
Rhyncostylis
Rhynia
Rhyniaceae
Rhætian
Rhætians
Rhône-Alpes
Rian
Riau
Riau Islands
Ribas-Torres disease
Ribbert's theory
Ribbonism

Literary usage of Rhynchocephalia

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

1. Text-book of Paleontology by Karl Alfred von Zittel (1902)
"rhynchocephalia.1 ... with remarks 011 the classification of the rhynchocephalia (Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 167). 1891. ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"mais, show us how such a type of palate was developed from the rhynchocephalia, ... rhynchocephalia ..."

3. A Manual of Palæontology, for the Use of Students: With a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"... and to include the rhynchocephalia in a second division as ... Professor Cope, while not going so far as this, places the rhynchocephalia in the ..."

4. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"Order V. rhynchocephalia. These resemble the lizards not only in body form (four five-toed feet) and in scaly skin, but in lack of hard palate, ..."

5. Water Reptiles of the Past and Present by Samuel Wendell Williston (1914)
"CHAPTER XIII rhynchocephalia In some of the small islands near the northeast coast of New Zealand certain small and peculiar, lizard-like reptiles, ..."

6. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1892)
"168-, remarks on the classification of the rhynchocephalia, which he proposes to arrange in two suborders and six families :— Subord. ..."

7. The Thalattosauria: A Group of Marine Reptiles from the Triassic of California by John Campbell Merriam (1905)
"... of this resemblance throughout the various parts is particularly noticeable. In some respects we find in the rhynchocephalia approximations to ..."

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