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Example sentences for "extinct genus"

  • An extinct genus of Mammals, allied to the Tapirs.

  • An extinct genus related to the living Musk-deer.

  • Bryozoan of extinct genus, from the inferior or Coralline Crag, Suffolk.

  • Thirria; Nerinaea being an extinct genus of univalve shells (Figure 325) much resembling the Cerithium in external form.

  • One of the most characteristic shrubs is a papilionaceous and leguminous plant of an extinct genus, called by Heer Podogonium, of which two species are known.

  • Hebert, Lartet, and Owen, to belong to an extinct genus.

  • One of an extinct genus of fossil cephalopods, allied to the Ammonites.

  • An extinct genus of Tertiary mammals allied to the horse, but three-toed, having on each foot a small lateral hoof on each side of the main central one.

  • An extinct genus of mammals closely allied to the elephant, but having less complex molar teeth, and often a pair of lower, as well as upper, tusks, which are incisor teeth.

  • An extinct genus of small Triassic mammals, the oldest yet found in European strata.

  • An extinct genus of tree ferns with large, two-ranked leaves, or fronds.

  • An extinct genus of large herbivorous dinosaurs, found in Jurassic strata in America.

  • An extinct genus of marine reptiles allied to Plesiosaurus, but having a much shorter neck.

  • An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.

  • An extinct genus of reptiles of the Permian period.

  • An extinct genus of horses from the Pliocene deposits.

  • An extinct genus of the order of molluscous animals, called Cephalopoda, that inhabited a long-chambered conical shell, like a straight horn.

  • An extinct genus of the order of molluscous animals, called Cephalopoda, of a thin lenticular shape, internally divided into small chambers.

  • Professor Owen afterwards pointed out that the jaw belonged to an extinct genus, having considerable affinity to a newly discovered Australian mammifer, the Myrmecobius of Waterhouse, which has nine molar teeth in the lower jaw.

  • An extinct genus of the order of molluscous animals called Cephalopoda, having a long, straight, and chambered conical shell.

  • Coral of extinct genus, from the inferior or coralline crag, Suffolk.

  • Among the spiral univalve shells the extinct genus Euomphalus (see fig.

  • Thirria; Nerinaea being an extinct genus of univalve shells, much resembling the Cerithium in external form.

  • An extinct genus of large, fossil, bivalve shells, allied to the mussels.

  • An extinct genus of toothed birds found in the American Cretaceous formation.

  • Defn: An extinct genus of Tertiary mammals allied to the horse, but three-toed, having on each foot a small lateral hoof on each side of the main central one.

  • Defn: One of an extinct genus of fossil cephalopods, allied to the Ammonites.


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