Definition & Meaning | English word METOPOSAURID
METOPOSAURID
Definitions of METOPOSAURID
- (zoology) Any temnospondyl of the family Metoposauridae.
Number of letters
12
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using METOPOSAURID in a Sentence
- It shares a number of metoposaurid synapomorphies such as deeply sloping postparietals and tabulars but also retains more primitive features found in earlier diverging temnospondyls and a number of probable homoplasies.
- Bluewater Creek Formation include the theropod dinosaur Camposaurus, phytosaur Rutiodon, the aetosaurs Desmatosuchus and Stagonolepis, and the metoposaurid Anaschisma.
- Fossils include archosaurs, procolophonids, metoposaurid amphibians, semionotid fish, a decapod, a conchostracan, and unionid bivalves.
- These include coprolites and indeterminate metoposaurid and phytosaur remains, including a paramedian scute that may be the aetosaur Longosuchus or Desmatosuchus.
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