pelagosaurs
pelagosaurs is the plural of pelagosaur.
Meaning of pelagosaur
Noun
pelagosaur (plural pelagosaurs)
- Any of the extinct crocodile-like animals of genus †Pelagosaurus which lived during the Jurassic period.
- In still older formations, such as the Lower Oolites and Lias, there were, however, many long-snouted crocodiles, such as the steneosaurs (Steneosaurus) and pelagosaurs (Pelagosaurus), in which the socket of the eye is divided from the lower temporal fossa by a bony bar, as shown in the figure on...1896, Richard Lydekker, Reptiles and fishes, page 32
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- What is pelagosaurs the plural of?
- Pelagosaurs is the plural of pelagosaur.
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