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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DOLICHOSAURUS

From Greek, from dolikhos long + -saur.
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PRONUNCIATION OF DOLICHOSAURUS

dolichosaurus  [ˌdɒlɪkəʊˈsɔːrəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DOLICHOSAURUS

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Dolichosaurus is a noun.
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WHAT DOES DOLICHOSAURUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Dolichosaurus

Dolichosaurus is an extinct genus of marine squamate of the Upper Cretaceous Cenomanian chalk deposits of England. Sister-group relationships between coniasaurs, dolichosaurs, Aigialosauridae and Mosasauridae are an unresolved polytomy. The paleobiology of Dolichosaurus is reconstructed as similar to coniasaurs, nothosaurs, and modern sea snakes.

Definition of dolichosaurus in the English dictionary

The definition of dolichosaurus in the dictionary is any of various extinct Cretaceous aquatic reptiles that had long necks and bodies and well-developed limbs.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DOLICHOSAURUS


allosaurus
ˌæləˈsɔːrəs
ankylosaurus
ˌæŋkɪləʊˈsɔːrəs
apatosaurus
əˌpætəˈsɔːrəs
brachiosaurus
ˌbreɪkɪəˈsɔːrəs
brontosaurus
ˌbrɒntəˈsɔːrəs
chorus
ˈkɔːrəs
hadrosaurus
ˌhædrəˈsɔːrəs
Horus
ˈhɔːrəs
ichthyosaurus
ˌɪkθɪəˈsɔːrəs
Matamoros
ˌmætəˈmɔːrəs
Miraflores
ˌmɪrəˈflɔːrəs
mosasaurus
ˌməʊsəˈsɔːrəs
porous
ˈpɔːrəs
sorus
ˈsɔːrəs
stegosaurus
ˌstɛɡəˈsɔːrəs
Taurus
ˈtɔːrəs
thesaurus
θɪˈsɔːrəs
torus
ˈtɔːrəs
tyrannosaurus
tɪˌrænəˈsɔːrəs
uredosorus
jʊˌriːdəʊˈsɔːrəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DOLICHOSAURUS

dolesome
dolesomely
Dolgellau
Dolgelley
dolichocephal
dolichocephalic
dolichocephalism
dolichocephalous
dolichocephaly
dolichos
dolichurus
Dolin
dolina
doline
dolium
doll
doll carriage
doll up
doll´s house
doll´s pram

WORDS THAT END LIKE DOLICHOSAURUS

Arcturus
Centaurus
coenurus
dolichurus
Epicurus
Epidaurus
eremurus
Eurus
miurus
Ten Gurus
urus

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DOLICHOSAURUS»

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Dolichosaurus
They also possess movable quadrate bones, making it possible to move the upper jaw relative to the braincase. This is particularly visible in snakes, which are able to open their mouths very wide to accommodate comparatively large prey.
Richie Krishna Fergus, 2012
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A history of British fossil reptiles
The extremities of the sacral pleurapophyses come into contact in the Dolichosaurus, but do not coalesce : the second sacral vertebra presents a ball to the first caudal, as in existing Lacertians, not a cup, as in the modern Crocodilia. On the ...
Richard Owen, 1849
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A Monograph on the Fossil Reptilia of the Cretaceous Formations
The extremities of the sacral pleurapophyses come into contact in the Dolichosaurus, but do not coalesce : the second sacral vertebra presents a ball to the first caudal, as in existing Lacertians, not a cup, as in the modern Crocodilia. On the ...
Richard Owen, 1851
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The geology and fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous ...
traces of the persistent cup-and-ball articulation between them remain. In the Scincoids the bodies of the sacral vertebrae become anchylosed together. The extremities of the sacral pleurapophyses come into contact in the Dolichosaurus, but ...
Frederick Dixon, 1850
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The annals and magazine of natural history, zoology, botany ...
Owen describes a new species of Mososaurus, M. gracilis, and one of Plesiosaurus, P. Bernardi, and also satisfactorily establishes two genera of lizards, Coniasaurus and Dolichosaurus, with proccelian cup-and-ball vertebrae, by the recent ...
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Annals and Magazine of Natural History
Owen describes a new species of Mososaurus, M. gracilis, and one of Plesiosaurua, P. Bernardi, and also satisfactorily establishes two genera of lizards, Coniasaums and Dolichosaurus, with procwlian cup-and-ball vertebrae, by the recent ...
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The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London
Owen's genera Dolichosaurus, Co'niosaurus, and Raphiosaurus of the English Cretaceous deposits. All the Lacertians of earlier periods, even those of the lithographic stone, show no convexity on the posterior articular surface of their ...
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Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie: Monatshefte
1842b Raphiosaurus. - Owen: 145. 1850 Dolichosaurus longicollis. - Owen: 388, Taf. 38, Fig. 1 -2, Taf. 39, Fig. 4. 1851 Dolichosaurus longicollis Owen. - Owen: 22 , Taf. 10, Fig. 1-4. 1 863 Dolichosaurus longicollis Owen. - Mackie: 267, Taf. 14.
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The Geology of Sussex: Or, The Geology and Fossils of the ...
its fore part, which are not present in the Dolichosaurus, nor in many of the existing Lacertians. Each diapophysis forms a short rounded tubercle, immediately below the base of the anterior zygapophysis ; and the simple, slightly expanded ...
Frederick Dixon, Thomas Rupert Jones, 1878
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Bulletin
The dolichosaurs are another group of small aquatic lizards that occur together with aigialosaurs in the middle Cretaceous strata of Komen and Lesina, with one form (Dolichosaurus) known from equivalent rocks in England. Cranial material ...

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