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Definition of Thecodontia
1. Noun. Extinct terrestrial reptiles having teeth set in sockets; of the late Permian to Triassic.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Archosauria, Subclass Archosauria
Member holonyms: Thecodont, Thecodont Reptile
Definition of Thecodontia
1. n. pl. A group of fossil saurians having biconcave vertebræ and the teeth implanted in sockets.
Medical Definition of Thecodontia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Thecodontia
Literary usage of Thecodontia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Creation: Or, The Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1883)
"... which have developed in different directions out of that common primary form.
The thecodontia of the Trias, the only positively known fossil forms of ..."
2. The History of Creation, Or, The Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Edwin Ray Lankester (1880)
"... orders must be considered as diverging branches, which have developed in
different directions out of that common primary form. The thecodontia of ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1860)
"thecodontia*. The vertebral bodies are biconcave: the ribs of the trunk are long
and bent, the anterior ones with a bifurcate head : the sacrum consists of ..."
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