tetanuran

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any theropod of the clade Tetanurae, all theropods, including birds, that are more closely related to modern birds than to the genus †Ceratosaurus.
    — The oldest tetanuran, the crested allosauroid Cryolophosaurus, was discovered in Lower Jurassic rocks on Antarctica and is quite similar to allosauroids from Upper Jurassic rocks on several continents.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of or pertaining to the dinosaurs of the clade Tetanurae. not-comparable
    — During Late Cretaceous times, the top predators in most Laurasian terrestrial ecosystems were the large-bodied tyrannosaurids, which suggests that this tetanuran clade may have originated after the split between Laurasia and Gondwana.

词形变化

tetanurans plural

词源

词源 1
Tetanurae + -an
词源 2
Tetanurae + -an
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