sauropterygian

English

Various sauropterygians

Etymology

From translingual Sauropterygia ‎ -ian.

Noun

sauropterygian (plural sauropterygians)

1. A reptile of the extinct superorder Sauropterygia.
   • 2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 66:

     The sauropterygians had streamlined bodies and their limbs were more or less modified to function as paddles or flippers.

Hypernyms

• saurian

Hyponyms

• eosauropterygian
• helveticosaurid
• saurosphargid
• placodontiform