rhynchosauriann.adj.
/ˌrɪŋkə(ʊ)ˈsɔːrɪən/, U.S. /ˌrɪŋkəˈsɔriən/ Palaeontology.
A. n.
= rhynchosaur n.
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1861 R. Owen Monogr. Fossil Reptilia of Liassic Format. I. 108 The Crocodiles resemble them [sc. Ichthyosaurs] in the inter-premaxillary suture; its presence is an exception in Lacertians, the Rhynchosaurians..affording such examples.
1907 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 63 143 The pelvis is very different from that of the known Rhynchosaurians.
1961 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 244 18 The presence of rhynchosaurians (Cephalonia) and numerous pseudosuchian techodonts was reported.
2003 T. R. E. Southwood Story of Life (2004) viii. 128 The powerfully ‘beaked’ rhynchosaurians were the dominant herbivores for much of the middle portion of the Triassic.
B. adj.
Of or relating to the order Rhynchosauria (see rhynchosaur n.).
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1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man xx. 403 Rhynchosaurian reptiles.
1906 H. G. Seeley Earth in Past Ages (new ed.) xiv. 122 They may comprise the footprints of Dicynodonts, of Rhynchosaurian reptiles, and perhaps of Hyperodapedon.
1965 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 250 48 Baird..has discovered rhynchosaurian remains from the Wolfville sandstones of Nova Scotia.
1990 Science 31 Aug. 1022/1 B-type faunas..show a considerable diversity of traversodont eucynodonts and, in most (but not all) instances, rhynchosaurian reptiles.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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