Nothosauria (Noun)
Meaning
A suborder of Sauropterygia.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- The Nothosauria clade was a diverse group of semi-aquatic marine reptiles that thrived during the Triassic period.
- Several well-known nothosaurs, including Nothosaurus and Pistosaurus, have been discovered in European and North American fossil deposits.
- In the absence of data from more primitive nothosauria taxa, the phylogenetic relationships within the group remain the subject of ongoing investigation.
- A synthesis of cranial and postcranial morphology has helped clarify nothosauria systematics, shedding light on key controversies surrounding relationships within the clade.
- Studies of nothosauria osteology have revealed significant variations in limb morphology and vertebral column structure across different members of the suborder.