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Definition of DICYNODONT

Dicynodont
Dicynodont Di*cyn"o*dont, n. [Gr. di- = di`s- twice + ? dog + ?, ?, tooth.] (Paleon.) One of a group of extinct reptiles having the jaws armed with a horny beak, as in turtles, and in the genus Dicynodon, supporting also a pair of powerful tusks. Their remains are found in triassic strata of South Africa and India.

Meaning of DICYNODONT from wikipedia

- extinct clade of anomodonts, an extinct type of non-mammalian therapsid. Dicynodonts were herbivores that typically bore a pair of tusks, hence their name...
- Lisowicia is an extinct genus of giant dicynodont synapsid that lived in what is now Poland during the late Norian or earliest Rhaetian age of the Late...
- other group of therapsids to have survived into the Late Tri****ic, the dicynodonts, became extinct towards the end of the period. The last surviving group...
- Placerias (meaning 'broad body') is an extinct genus of dicynodonts that lived during the Carnian to the Norian age of the Tri****ic Period (230–215 million...
- Permian and Tri****ic periods. By far the most speciose group are the dicynodonts, a clade of beaked, tusked herbivores. Anomodonts were very diverse during...
- Permian–Tri****ic extinction event, and only two groups of therapsids, the dicynodonts and eutheriodonts (consisting of therocephalians and cynodonts) are known...
- (meaning "terrible-toothed lizard") is a genus of dicynodont therapsid. It was medium to large dicynodont of the Tri****ic (with skull up to 40 centimetres...
- the inside. The burrow-maker was medium-sized animal, likely a juvenile dicynodont. The smaller burrows are low tapered chambers with incomplete or collapsed...
- or smoothing, shovel, spade, hoe’) is an extinct genus of herbivorous dicynodont therapsids from the late Permian and Early Tri****ic epochs (around 248 million...
- Ischigualastia is an extinct genus of large dicynodont therapsids that lived during the Late Carnian age and the Early Norian age of the Late Tri****ic...