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Extinct marine reptile with longer more slender limbs than plesiosaurs and less completely modified for swimming
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nothosaur
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n. extinct marine reptile with longer more slender limbs than plesiosaurs and less completely modified for swimming
Wiktionary
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n. Any of several extinct marine reptiles, of the order ''Nothosauroidea'', from the Triassic period
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Nothosaurs (order Nothosauroidea ) were Triassic marine sauropterygian reptiles that may have lived like seals of today, catching food in water but coming ashore on rocks and beaches. They averaged about in length, with a long body and tail. The feet were ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
nothosaur \nothosaur\ n. An extinct marine reptile with longer more slender limbs than plesiosaurs and less completely modified for swimming.
Usage examples of nothosaur.
Appearing in the oceans about the same time as the ichthyosaurs were another group of euryapsid reptiles called the nothosaurs.
The limbs of nothosaurs show none of the modifications seen in ichthyosaurs and they could have supported the adult on land if they came ashore to lay eggs.
But careful restudy of the structure of the roof of the mouth and of the shoulder bones of these animals indicates that most nothosaurs are too specialized to be plesiosaur ancestors.