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Definition of Ornithosauria

Ornithosauria
Ornithosauria Or*ni`tho*sau"ri*a, n. pl. [NL. See Ornitho-, and Sauria.] (Paleon.) An order of extinct flying reptiles; -- called also Pterosauria.
Ornithosauria
Pterosauria Pter`o*sau"ri*a, n. pl. [NL.] (Paleon.) An extinct order of flying reptiles of the Mesozoic age; the pterodactyls; -- called also Pterodactyli}, and Ornithosauria}. Note: The wings were formed, like those of bats, by a leathery expansion of the skin, principally supported by the greatly enlarged outer or `` little' fingers of the hands. The American Cretaceous pterodactyls had no teeth. See Pteranodontia, and Pterodactyl.

Meaning of Ornithosauria from wikipedia

- English expert on the subject, who also wrote the first pterosaur book, Ornithosauria, and in 1901 the first po****r book, Dragons of the Air. Seeley thought...
- 2006-04-17. Seeley, H.G., (1869). Index to the Fossil Remains of Aves, Ornithosauria, and Reptilia from the Secondary System of Strata, arranged in the Woodwardian...
- Ornithocheirus sedgwickii (by then it has been placed within the now obsolete Ornithosauria). In 1874, Owen again renamed it into Coloborhynchus sedgwickii. Owen...
- British Museum (Natural History) Cromwell Road S.W. Pt. 1: The Orders Ornithosauria, Crocodilia, Squamata, Rhynchocephalia, and Proterosauria. London: The...
- the British Museum (Natural History). Part I. Containing the Orders Ornithosauria, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, Squamata, Rhynchocephalia and Pterosauria....
- species. When Seeley published his conclusions in his 1870 book The Ornithosauria, this provoked a reaction by the leading British paleontologist of his...
- "Ornithosauria"", Annals and Magazine of Natural History Series 4 7(37): 20-36 Seeley, H.G., 1891, "On the shoulder girdle in Cretaceous Ornithosauria"...
- (Natural History), Cromwell Road, S.W., Part 1. Containing the Orders Ornithosauria, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, Squamata, Rhynchocephalia, and Proterosauria...
- S2CID 128811880. Seeley, H. G. (1869). Index to the fossil remains of Aves, Ornithosauria, and Reptilia, from the secondary system of strata arranged in the Woodwardian...
- publication). doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2011.09.003 Seeley, H.G. (1870). The Ornithosauria: an Elementary Study of the Bones of Pterodactyles. Cambridge, 130 pp...