单词 | aetosaur |
释义 | aetosaurn. Palaeontology. Any reptile of the extinct order (or suborder) Aetosauria, known from fossil remains of the Triassic period, and comprising herbivorous diapsids that resembled heavily armoured crocodiles. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > extinct reptiles and dinosaurs > [noun] > Sauria > member of order Thecodontia > other types of aetosaur1893 1893 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. I. at Aetosauria Aetosaur. 1904 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 167 382 In the Aëtiosaur [sic] (Stegomus longipes)..we find a form whose stilted limbs and comparatively narrow body give it just the proportions one would suppose Batrachopus to have. 1974 Nature 8 Mar. 168/2 The thecodontian hand, known in phytosaurs, aetosaurs, [etc.]..was crocodile-like with five long digits. 1985 D. Norman Illustr. Encycl. Dinosaurs 186/2 In the early part of the late Triassic the first dinosaurs had caused the extinction of all the herbivorous mammal-like reptiles and a few other aberrant groups of herbivorous reptiles (e.g. rhynchosaurs and aëtosaurs). 2008 Nature 31 Jan. 510 (caption) The aetosaur, which lived more than 200 million years ago, was a reptile related to crocodiles and dinosaurs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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