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Definition of Thecodonts
1. thecodont [n] - See also: thecodont
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thecodonts
Literary usage of Thecodonts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Geology: Containing a Statement of the Principles of the Science by Ebenezer Emmons (1857)
"THE LACERTILIA ; SECTION, thecodonts. § 48. The order Lacertilia is distinguished
from Croco- dilia, ..."
2. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1869)
"The characteristics which seem to be marks of high grade in these thecodonts
appear to be so implanted in a structure otherwise low, that they must be ..."
3. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"Professor Owen commences the family of the thecodonts, extinct Saurians which
exhibit a mode of fixation of the teeth different from the ..."
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