Crossword clues for saurischian
Wiktionary
a. Characteristic of these dinosaurs n. Any dinosaur of the order ''Saurischia''
WordNet
n. herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur having a three-pronged pelvis like that of a crocodile [syn: saurischian dinosaur]
Usage examples of "saurischian".
All other saurischian dinosaurs make up the bipedal carnivorous theropods.
The other saurischian stem is made up of plant eaters ancestral to the sauropods, which became the biggest land animals ever.
This type of tooth is characteristic of ornithischian dinosaurs, and is not found in either herrerasaurids or saurischian dinosaurs.
Staurikosaums is neither a saurischian nor an ornithischian, but is an earlier, more primitive kind of dinosaur.
The saurischian dinosaurs contain both carnivorous and herbivorous forms.
Before we finish with Sauropodomorpha, I would like to present another group of saurischian dinosaurs with a yet-undetermined position within reptile-hipped dinosaurs, which seems to be most closely related to sauropodomorphs.
Unlike the sauropods, which are saurischian, or reptile-hipped dinosaurs, stegosaurs were ornithischian, or bird-hipped dinosaurs.
The thinko scans it and tells him that it is a representative of an unknown species belonging to the saurischian order and it is almost certainly predatory.
The saurischian predator of unknown species slavers and roars and glares.
In the final analysis then, dinosaurs, or more precisely the saurischian dinosaurs, did not become extinct but survived as birds.
Not only are the large ankylosaur and small saurischian not very closely related, but they are obviously not very similar ecologically.
The herrerasaurids lack some of the features that exclusively characterize the Saurischians, but possess many dinosaur features shared by both the Saurischia and the Ornithischia.
That is, they belong to a family of dinosaurs that existed before the dinosaurs split into saurischians and ornithischians.
The Jurassic was also the time of the rise of other saurischians, one class of which made meals of many sauropods.
These names refer to the morphology of the hip joint and ostentation of the pubis bone, which is more typically reptile-like in saurischians and is superficially like that of a bird in ornithischians.