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- taxonomic name · borrowed fromPlagiosauroidea
- English todayplagiosaur
Clipping of taxonomic name Plagiosauroidea or Plagiosauridae. By surface analysis, plagio- + -saur.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
plagiosaur
Today it means: Any of the superfamily †Plagiosauroidea of stereospondyl temnospondyls that lived during the Triassic period. Full definition →
taxonomic name Plagiosauroidea