Meaning of plagiosaur | Babel Free

Definitions

Any of the superfamily Plagiosauroidea of stereospondyl temnospondyls that lived during the Triassic period.

Examples

“Certain short-faced Triassic forms tend⟳ to have⟳ reduced counts; the brachyopid Batrachosuchus having but 17 maxillary teeth and the plagiosaur Gerrothorax having somewhat over 26.”

“One species that deserves special mention⟳ is Latiscopus disjunctus (Wilson, 1948) described from the Upper Triassic of Texas. It is the only amphibian of its age that is not a metoposaur, a plagiosaur, a capitosauroid or a brachyopoid.”

“In contrast, the amphibian biofacies of Berdyankian time is dominated by mastodonsaurids and plagiosaurs, with much lesser numbers of prolacertiforms, archo-saurs and small cynodonts.”

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