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Definition of Nothosauria
1. Noun. A suborder of Sauropterygia.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Order Sauropterygia, Sauropterygia
Member holonyms: Genus Nothosaurus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nothosauria
Literary usage of Nothosauria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Water Reptiles of the Past and Present by Samuel Wendell Williston (1914)
"Of this order then there are two clearly marked divisions or suborders, the
Plesiosauria and the nothosauria, the former having a complete aquatic ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"(nothosauria Seeley 1882.) Suborder Plesiosauria auct. ex Quenstedt 1852.
Order Testudinata auct. ex Shaw 1802. Suborder Pleurodira auct. ex Duméril and ..."
3. Fieldiana: Geology by Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago Natural History Museum (1907)
"... have united along the whole median line, as in the nothosauria, or that they
should have closed up in front of the basisphenoid, as in the Chelonia. ..."
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