sauropterygian
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From translingual Sauropterygia + -ian.
Noun
[edit]sauropterygian (plural sauropterygians)
- 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.