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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Thecodontia, order Thecodontianoun

    extinct terrestrial reptiles having teeth set in sockets; of the late Permian to Triassic

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  1. Thecodontia

    Thecodontia (meaning 'socket-teeth'), now considered an obsolete taxonomic grouping, was formerly used to describe a diverse "order" of early archosaurian reptiles that first appeared in the latest Permian period and flourished until the end of the Triassic period. All of them were built somewhat like crocodiles but with shorter skulls, more erect pose and usually somewhat lighter. The group includes the ancestors of dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and crocodilians, as well as a number of extinct forms that did not give rise to any descendants. The term thecodont is still used as an anatomical description of the tooth morphology seen in these species and others.

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  1. thecodontia

    Thecodontia is a term used in paleontology to refer to an order of extinct, primitive, essentially toothed reptiles from which the dinosaurs, crocodiles, and birds are believed to have evolved. These creatures, which lived from the late Permian period to the late Triassic period, were distinguished by teeth that were set in sockets in their jawbones - a feature known as thecodont dentition.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Thecodontia

    a group of fossil saurians having biconcave vertebrae and the teeth implanted in sockets

Wikidata

  1. Thecodontia

    Thecodontia, now considered an obsolete taxonomic grouping, was formerly used to describe a diverse "order" of early archosaurian reptiles that first appeared in the latest Permian period and flourished until the end of the Triassic period. All of them were built somewhat like crocodiles, but with shorter skulls, more erect pose and usually somewhat lighter. The group includes the ancestors of dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and crocodilians, as well as a number of extinct forms that did not give rise to any descendants. The term "thecodont" is still used as an anatomical description of the tooth morphology seen in these species and others.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of thecodontia in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of thecodontia in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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