Definition of Pelycosaurs

1. pelycosaur [n] - See also: pelycosaur

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pelycosaurs

pelvis renalis
pelvis spuria
pelvis vera
pelvisacral
pelviscope
pelvises
pelvitherm
pelviureterography
pelvivertebral angle
pelvocephalography
pelvoscopy
pelvospondylitis ossificans
pelyco-
pelycosaur
pelycosaurs (current term)
pembina
pembinas
pembrokes
pemetrexed
pemican
pemicans
pemmican
pemmicans
pemoline
pemolines
pemphigoid
pemphigous
pemphigus

Literary usage of Pelycosaurs

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

1. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1914)
"In 1910 I endeavored to show that there was a distinct genetic relationship between the pelycosaurs and the South African mammal-like reptiles, ..."

2. Revision of the Pelycosauria of North America by Ermine Cowles Case (1907)
"The remains of pelycosaurs always occur mingled with remains of an abundant fauna ... Beyond the limits of North America pelycosaurs occur in Bohemia, ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"... is rejected by most students of the reptiles, and the very aberrant structure of this region in the pelycosaurs, especially the presence of a ..."

4. Records (1906)
"... the transverse processes pass outward and downward as in the pelycosaurs. ... Permian reptile its affinities may possibly ba more with the pelycosaurs. ..."

5. The Order Microsauria by Robert Lynn Carroll, Pamela Gaskill (1978)
"... in large Paleozoic tetra pods such as pelycosaurs. Even the exact extent and orientation of the articulating surfaces may be difficult to determine. ..."

6. Geologisches Zentralblatt (1904)
"... have developed from гор- tiles resembling the American pelycosaurs. Their peculiar skull structures have resulted from a degeneration of the quadrate, ..."

7. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1918)
"... or pelycosaurs, etc.; Therapsida or mammal-like reptiles, the latter giving rise to the mammals; ..."

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