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Answer for the clue "A kind of therapsid ", 10 letters:
dicynodont

Word definitions for dicynodont in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A member of the Dicynodontia, an extinct group of therapsids.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dicynodontia is a taxon of anomodont therapsids or synapsids with beginnings in the mid-Permian , which were dominant in the Late Permian and continued throughout the Triassic , with a few possibly surviving into the Early Cretaceous . Dicynodonts were ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a kind of therapsid

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dicynodont \Di*cyn"o*dont\, n. [Gr. di- = di`s- twice + ? dog + 'odoy`s, 'odo`ntos, tooth.] (Paleon.) One of a group of extinct reptiles having the jaws armed with a horny beak, as in turtles, and in the genus Dicynodon , supporting also a pair ...

Usage examples of dicynodont.

Both contain small coelurosaurs, aetosaurs, dicynodonts, phytosaurs, and rauisuchids.

Dicynodonts, rhynchosaurs, protorosaurs, and trilophosaurs are the most common groups in the adequately known fauna.