Thecodont (Noun)
Meaning
Presumably in the common ancestral line to dinosaurs and crocodiles and birds.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- The thecodonts are considered to be among the earliest known ancestors of the most successful terrestrial vertebrates, including the dinosaurs and crocodiles.
- The discovery of early thecodont fossils helped researchers better understand the transition between earlier archosaurs and the groups that gave rise to the dinosaurs, birds, and crocodiles.
- Archosaurs, particularly the thecodonts, started diversifying in the Triassic, marking a turning point in their evolution and leading to their success.
- Characteristics common among thecodonts indicate their adaptation to an aquatic lifestyle which played a key role in shaping their relationship with other species such as crocodiles.
- Presumably the early archosaur, including those called the thecodonts, displayed advanced mobility adaptations suited for rapid colonization and their roles in driving global changes within vertebrates such as in reptiles that could and gave rise to groups of both dinosaurians and that have gone into later times formed some current members within them: groups also eventually coming of an Archosaur ancestors some evolving by leading it - others ending including ultimately many known having actually created now non birds descendants then found archosaurial relative today evolved close distant many closely distant close time relative that eventually evolved birds, crocodilians.