saurians's Usage Examples:

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.

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

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.

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

Fossil remains of saurians of gigantic size have been found; one thigh bone measures 6 ft.

The saurians are represented on land by several species of lizard, some of them conspicuous for their brilliant colouring, and by the large "iguana," whose flesh is considered a great delicacy.

Their fossils include belemnites, ammonites, scaphites and marine saurians, such as Cimoliosaurus.

Synonyms:

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

Antonyms:

anapsid, Anapsida, chelonian, anapsid reptile, reptilian,