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Definition of Rhynchocephalia

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhynchocephalia

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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