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Definition of Cotylosaurs
1. cotylosaur [n] - See also: cotylosaur
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cotylosaurs
Literary usage of Cotylosaurs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contributions by University of Chicago Walker Museum of Paleontology (1917)
"... and their restriction to the occipital surface of the skull. The genus could
not have been ancestral to any known later cotylosaurs, though possibly the ..."
2. Popular Science Monthly (1904)
"... however, enables us to establish the following facts: first, that the parentage
of these animals is more probably among the cotylosaurs than among the ..."
3. A Text-book of Geology: For Use in Universities, Colleges, Schools of by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1915)
"As a rule, the cotylosaurs were small to medium-sized animals, ... They were more
active and lizard-like than the cotylosaurs, with longer tails, ..."
4. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1914)
"The relationship of the Pelycosaurs with the cotylosaurs is very manifest ...
Both have doubtless had a common ancestry in the cotylosaurs and though they ..."
5. The Origin and Evolution of Life: On the Theory of Action, Reaction and by Henry Fairfield Osborn (1917)
"Passing to the widely different amphibian-like order known as cotylosaurs, we
see animals which, on the one hand, grade into the more fully aquatic, ..."
6. Water Reptiles of the Past and Present by Samuel Wendell Williston (1914)
"cotylosaurs, which have no holes in the temporal roof of the skull, and as the
cotylosaurs were the most primitive and the oldest of reptiles, ..."
7. Outlines of Geologic History, with Especial Reference to North America: A by Bailey Willis, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"... had branched off before the close of the Pennsylvanian; the true cotylosaurs
... the mammals doubtless eventually arose, as well as the cotylosaurs, ..."
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