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osteolaemines

osteolaemines is the plural of osteolaemine.

Meaning of osteolaemine

Noun

osteolaemine (plural osteolaemines)

  1. A crocodile of the subfamily Osteolaeminae.
    • We describe two new osteolaemine crocodylids from the Early and early Middle Miocene of Kenya: Kinyang mabokoensis tax. nov. (Maboko, 15 Ma) and Kinyang tchernovi tax. nov. (Karungu and Loperot, 18 Ma). […] Tubulirostrine Euthecodon and gharials persist, but small flat‐snouted osteolaemines are...2022 June 8, Christopher A. Brochu et al., “Giant dwarf crocodiles from the Miocene of Kenya and crocodylid faunal dynamics in the late Cenozoic of East Africa”, in The Anatomical Record, Hoboken...

Questions about osteolaemines

What is osteolaemines the plural of?
Osteolaemines is the plural of osteolaemine.

Words near osteolaemines in the dictionary

  1. osteokine
  2. osteokinematic
  3. osteokinematics
  4. osteokines
  5. osteolaemine
  6. osteolaemines
  7. osteolathyrism
  8. osteolathyrogenic
  9. osteolepid
  10. osteolepidid
  11. osteolepidids

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