sauro-, saur-, -saurus, -saurid, -saur, -sauria, -saurian
(Greek: lizard, reptile, serpent; used especially with reference to “dinosaurs”)
Sauria
Lizards; large and diverse suborder of reptiles consisting of 3300 species in 17 families.
saurian
1. Lizard; any of a former suborder of reptiles that included all lizards.
2. Relating to or resembling a lizard.
Saurischian
Order of dinosaurs, “lizard hipped”, characterized by the lizard-type hip; includes large bipedal carnivores and large quadripedal herbivores. This major groupng of dinosaurs consists of theoropods and sauropods.
saurochorous, saurochore, saurochory
Dispersed or distributed by lizards or snakes; also known as saurophilous.
saurodont
A reference to a lizard’s or dinosaur’s tooth.
sauroid
In zoology, resembling a reptile.
Saurolophus, Saurolophine
Means “ridged (crested) lizard” from Late Cretaceous Mongolia and North America (Alberta, Canada). Named by paleontologist Barnum Brown (1873-1963) in 1912.
Sauronithoidids
These “bird-like lizards” were lightweight predators as long as a man. They shared some features found in other small theropods. They are said to have lived in Late Cretaceous northern areas.
Sauropelta
A “small-shield lizard” from Early Cretaceous or Late Cretaceous Montana, USA. Named by U. S. paleontologist John H. Ostrom in 1970.
Saurophaganax
A “king-of-the-reptile eaters” from Late Jurassic Oklahoma. Named by Daniel J. Chure in 1995.
Saurophagus
This nomenclature (“reptile eater”) is no longer recognized by scientists because they found that it described an animal that was previously given another name which is Allosaurus.
Sauroplites
A “lizard hoplite” from Early Cretaceous or Late Cretaceous north China and Mongolia. The name comes from the hoplites, the name of the heavily armed infantry of ancient Greece. Named by Birger Bohlin in 1953.
sauropod
In paleontology, any member of the infraorder sauropoda. It was a huge, quadrupedal, herbivorous dinosaur with long necks, small heads, and long tails.
Sauropoda
Known as \"lizard feet\" is a group of saurischian dinosaurs containing many large, quadripedal herbivores; such as, Diplodocus, the largest known terrestrial animal from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
Sauropodomorphs
The early Sauropodomorphs were Prosauropods (“before the lizard feet”). They included the first plant-eating dinosaurs, and most are believed to have lived before the much larger, herbivorous sauropods (“lizard feet”).
A cross reference of other word family units that are related directly, or indirectly, with: "snakes or other reptiles":
angui-;
coluber-;
herpeto-;
ophio-;
reptil-.
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