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- Placodonts ("tablet teeth") are an extinct order of marine reptiles that lived during the Tri****ic period, becoming extinct at the end of the period. They...
- Gr****: ἑνός henós, 'one' and Gr****: ὀδούς odoús, 'tooth') is an extinct placodont of the Late Tri****ic period during the early Carnian age. Fossils of Henodus...
- they may be closely related to turtles. The bulky-bodied, mollusc-eating placodonts may also be sauropterygians, or intermediate between the classic eosauropterygians...
- Sinocyamodus is an extinct genus of placodont reptile from the Late Tri****ic (Tuvalian) Xiaowa Formation of China. Only one species, Sinocyamodus xinpuensis...
- (Rhaetian). By the end of the Tri****ic, all other sauropterygians, including placodonts and nothosaurs, had become extinct. At least six lineages of plesiosaur...
- common during the Middle Tri****ic, especially in the Tethys region), placodonts, the earliest known herbivorous marine reptile Atopodentatus, and the...
- extinct clade of sauropterygian marine reptiles that includes placodonts and the non-placodont Palatodonta. It was erected in 2013 with the description of...
- Cyamodus (pron.: SIE-ah-MO-dus) is a genus of placodonts known from several species described from Middle-Late Tri****ic of Europe and China. The genus...
- with Hendous meaning "single tooth") is an extinct genus of henodontid placodont only known from a skull, discovered between 2008 and 2015 and described...
- Pararcus is an extinct genus of placodont marine reptile from the Middle Tri****ic of the Netherlands. The genus is monotypic and the type species is Pararcus...