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ARCHOSAURIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large subclass of diapsid reptiles including: crocodiles; alligators; dinosaurs; pterosaurs; plesiosaurs; ichthyosaurs; thecodonts
Synonyms:
Archosauria; subclass Archosauria
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Archosauria" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Meronyms (members of "Archosauria"):
archosaur; archosaurian; archosaurian reptile (extinct reptiles including: dinosaurs; plesiosaurs; pterosaurs; ichthyosaurs; thecodonts)
genus Saurosuchus; Saurosuchus; genus Proterochampsa; Proterochampsa (early archosaurian carnivore)
Crocodilia; Crocodylia; order Crocodilia; order Crocodylia (crocodiles; alligators; caimans; gavials)
order Ornithischia; Ornithischia (extinct terrestrial reptiles having bird-like pelvises: armored dinosaurs (thyreophorans); boneheaded and horned dinosaurs (marginocephalians); duck-billed dinosaurs (euronithopods))
order Saurischia; Saurischia (extinct terrestrial reptiles: theropods (carnivorous); sauropods (herbivorous))
order Pterosauria; Pterosauria (extinct flying reptiles: pterosaurs)
order Thecodontia; Thecodontia (extinct terrestrial reptiles having teeth set in sockets; of the late Permian to Triassic)
Ichthyosauria; order Ichthyosauria (extinct marine reptiles: ichthyosaurs)
order Sauropterygia; Sauropterygia (extinct marine reptiles: plesiosaurs; nothosaurs)
Holonyms ("Archosauria" is a member of...):
class Reptilia; Reptilia (class of cold-blooded air-breathing vertebrates with completely ossified skeleton and a body usually covered with scales or horny plates; once the dominant land animals)
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