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Definition of Sauropterygia
1. Noun. Extinct marine reptiles: plesiosaurs; nothosaurs.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Archosauria, Subclass Archosauria
Member holonyms: Plesiosauria, Suborder Plesiosauria, Nothosauria, Suborder Nothosauria
Definition of Sauropterygia
1. n. pl. Same as Plesiosauria.
Medical Definition of Sauropterygia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sauropterygia
Literary usage of Sauropterygia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1866)
"Vertebral column of sauropterygia.—In this extinct order of aquatic Reptiles the
vertebral bodies had their terminal articular surfaces either flat or ..."
2. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1866)
"Vertebral column of sauropterygia.—In this extinct order of aquatic Reptiles the
vertebral bodies had their terminal articular surfaces either flat or ..."
3. Palaeontology Or A Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and Their by Richard Owen (1861)
"sauropterygia.* No post-orbital and supra-temporal bones : large temporal and
other vacuities between certain cranial bones; a foramen parietale; ..."
4. Water Reptiles of the Past and Present by Samuel Wendell Williston (1914)
"CHAPTER VI sauropterygia Very scanty are the early human records of those strange
reptiles known as the plesiosaurs. ..."
5. A Manual of Zoology by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1870)
"... essentially marine animals, and they have been often included with the next
order (sauropterygia) in a common group, under the name of ..."
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