saurian's Usage Examples:

typify approach typified much of the literature on dinosaurian extinction from the 1930s to the 1960s.

Another well-known bed, formerly known as the "Bristol" or "Lias" Bone Bed, exists in the form of several thin layers of micaceous sandstone, with the remains of fish and saurians, which occur in the Rhaetic Black Paper Shales that lie above the Keuper marls in the south-west of England.

Great quantities of large, well-preserved saurian fossils new to science were found in the Grentzbitumenzone.

saurian fossils new to science were found in the Grentzbitumenzone.

The saurians or lizards are numerous, chiefly on dry sandy or rocky ground in the tropical region.

Some species still reportedly retain a visible ' tail ' although much atrophied from their supposedly extinct ' saurian ancestors.

Of Reptilia Chile is singularly free, there being recorded only eleven species - five saurians, four ophidians, one frog and one toad - but a more thorough survey of the uninhabited territories of the south may increase this list.

The imprints in the enormously older new red sandstone or Lower Trias of Connecticut, and originally named Ornithichnites, belong to Dinosaurian Reptiles.

be found dispersed through the coprolites, and sometimes the bones of small ichthyosauri, which were apparently a prey to the larger marine saurians.

The emperor Leo, the Isaurian, came to open rupture with Pope Gregory II.

The faunal aspect of the Tertiary periods differs strikingly from that of preceding Secondary or Mesozoic; in place of the great saurian reptiles we find the rapid development and finally the maximum expansion of mammals.

Synonyms:

suborder Sauria, diapsid, diapsid reptile, suborder Lacertilia, lizard, Sauria, Lacertilia,

Antonyms:

anapsid, Anapsida, chelonian, anapsid reptile, reptilian,