sauro-, saur-, -saurus, -saurid, -saur, -sauria, -saurian
(Greek: lizard, reptile, serpent; used especially with reference to “dinosaurs”)
Thalassonomosaurus
A “sea-living lizard” from Late Cretaceous North America. Named by U. S. paleontologist Samuel Paul Welles in 1943.
Thaumatosaurus
A “wonder lizard” from Early Jurassic Europe. Named by naturalist Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer in 1841.
Thecodontosaurus
A “socket-toothed lizard” from Late Triassic west-central England (near Bristol), and maybe South Africa and northeast Australia. This creature was formerly known as Hortalotarsus. Named by S. H. Riley and Samuel Stutchbury in 1836.
Therizinosaurids
A “scythe (reaping) lizard” from Late Cretaceous eastern Central Asia.
Therizinosaurus cheloniformis
A “scythe (reaping) lizard” from Late Cretaceous Nemegt Basin, southern Mongolia. Named by Russian paleontologist Yevgenii (or Evgeny) Alexandrovich Maleev (or Yevgenii Aleksandrovich Maleyev) in 1954.
Therosaurus
An invalid name for Iguanodon, a plant-eating dinosaur with thumb spikes. It is said to have lived during the Early Cretaceous period.
Thescelosaurids
Among the last of the dinosaurs, thescelosaurids (“wonderful lizards”) come from the topmost Mesozoic rock layer in North America.
Thescelosaurus
A “wonderful (marvelous) lizard” from Late Cretaceous western North America (Alberta, Saskatchewan [Canada]; Montana, South Dakota, and Wyoming [USA]). Named by U. S. paleontologist Charles Whitney Gilmore in 1913.
Thotobolosauurus
“Thotobolo lizard” from early Late Triassic Lesotho, southern Africa. Named by Paul Ellenberger in 1972.
Tianchiasaurus
“Heavenly Pool lizard” from early Middle Triassic China. A name that refers to Tian Chi, “Heavenly Pool”, a famous lake near where the fossils were found. It was previously named “Jurassosaurus”, in honor of the motion picture “Jurassic Park”. Named by Chinese paleontologist Zhiming Dong in 1993.
Tianzhenosaurus
“Tianzhen lizard” from Late Cretaceous China. Named in 1998 to indicate an ankylosaurid found in Tianzhen County, in Sichuan Province, China, in the Late Cretaceous Huiquanpu Formation at Kangdailiang near Zhaojiagou Village. Named by Peng Guangzhao and Cheng in 1998.
Tienshanosaurus
“Tien Shan (Heavenly Mountains) lizard” from Early Cretaceous or Late Cretaceous Tien Shan mountain range in Xinjiang, northwest China. Named by Chinese paleontologist Yang Zhong-jian (also known as: Chung Chien Young) in 1937.
Titanosaurids
Despite their name “giant (titanic) lizards”, some Titanosaurids were quite small. Unhappily, most are known from very incomplete remains. They are believed to have lived during the Late Cretaceous period. This creature was previously called Magyarosaurus. Named by British paleontologist Richard Lydekker in 1885.
Titanosaurus
A “titanic lizard” gets its name from the titans, giants of Greek myth and existed from Late Cretaceous Europe, India, Indochina, and Argentina. Named by British paleontologist Richard Lydekker in 1877.
Tochisaurus
An “ostrich (foot) lizard” from Late Cretaceous Mongolia. Named by Sergei Mikhailovich Kurzanov and Polish paleontologist Halszka Osmólska in 1991.
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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