Definition of Thecodontia

1. Noun. Extinct terrestrial reptiles having teeth set in sockets; of the late Permian to Triassic.

Exact synonyms: Order Thecodontia
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Archosauria, Subclass Archosauria
Member holonyms: Thecodont, Thecodont Reptile

Definition of Thecodontia

1. n. pl. A group of fossil saurians having biconcave vertebræ and the teeth implanted in sockets.

Medical Definition of Thecodontia

1. A group of fossil saurians having biconcave vertebrae and the teeth implanted in sockets. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thecodontia

thecal
thecal abscess
thecal whitlow
thecaphore
thecaphores
thecas
thecasporous
thecata
thecate
thecia
thecitis
thecium
thecodactyl
thecodont
thecodont reptile
thecodontia (current term)
thecodonts
thecomatosis
thecophora
thecosomata
thecostegnosia
thede
thedes
thedom
thee
thee sen
theed
theedom
theeing

Literary usage of Thecodontia

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 (1883)
"... which have developed in different directions out of that common primary form. The thecodontia of the Trias, the only positively known fossil forms of ..."

2. The History of Creation, Or, The Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Edwin Ray Lankester (1880)
"... orders must be considered as diverging branches, which have developed in different directions out of that common primary form. The thecodontia of ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1860)
"thecodontia*. The vertebral bodies are biconcave: the ribs of the trunk are long and bent, the anterior ones with a bifurcate head : the sacrum consists of ..."

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