pelagosaur

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of the extinct crocodile-like animals of genus †Pelagosaurus which lived during the Jurassic period.
    — In still older formations, such as the Lower Oolites and Lias, there were, however, many long-snouted crocodiles, such as the steneosaurs (Steneosaurus) and pelagosaurs (Pelagosaurus), in which the socket of the eye is divided from the lower temporal fossa by a bony bar, as shown in the figure on p. 13.

词形变化

pelagosaurs plural

词源

From Latin pelagus from Ancient Greek πελαγικός (pelagikós), from πέλαγος (pélagos, “sea”) + -saur.
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