sauroid (saroid)

and η. [ १ bt Saurogna thous IMG:content-0168.png:[ocr errors] Saururæ In me [NL. Sauro Skull of Woodpecker (Colaptes aura tus). v, v, the posterior parts of the abortive vomer; s, point of sphenoid; mxp, max ill opal a tine; pt, pterygoid; me, o ified mes ethmoid; 1, pal a tinere, quadrad Pals temporal; fm, foramen magnum. The posterior part of one palatine is cut away to show the longe anterior projec a saurian in general; having characters of or some affinity with reptiles; reptilian; sauropsidan, as a vertebrate; pertaining to the Sauroidei, as a fish. The existence of warm periods during the Cretaceous age is plainly shown by the corals and huge sauroid reptiles which then inhabited our waters. J. Croll, Climate and Time. II. n. 1. One of a family of ganoid fishes including the lepidosteids and various extinct Restored Sauroid ( Pygopterus ). forms; a member of the Sauroidei: as, "the sauroids and sharks," Buck land.-2. A member of the Sauropsida. Huxley, 1863. Sauroidei (sâ-roidē-i), n. pl. [NL., Sauroid ichnites .