dinocerata

pl. [Pl. of Mod. Lat. dinoc. eras (q. v.).] Palæont.: An order of Mammal i a having on each of the four feet five well-developed toes, each terminated by a hoof. Proboscis absent (?). Three horn cores. No upper incisors; upper canines a uming the form of long tusks directed downward. The species are large mammals from the Eocene of North America. Prof. Cope ranks the Dinocerata as an aberrant group of Ungulata, while Prof. Marsh considers them a distinct order intermediate between the Peri odactyle Ungulata and the Proboscidea. ( Nicholson .) dint di-nō-sâur, *dei-nō-sâur, s. [DINOSAUR I A.] A member of the sub-order Dinosaur i a. in the Dinosaur it may be a question."- Hux ley, in Quar. Jour. Geol. Soc . , xxvi. (1870), 27. di-nō-sâu-ri-a, *dei-nō-sâu-ri-a, s . pl . [Gr. deinos strange, unnatural, fearful, terrible, dreadful, and sauros , or saura =a lizard.] Palæont .: A tribe or sub-order of Reptiles established by Herman von Meyer in 1832, and subsequently called by him Pachypodes, or Pachypoda. In 1841 Profe or Owen gave them the name which they still retain, Dinosaur i a. Huxley places them as one of two sub-orders under his order Ornithoscelida [ORNITHOSCELIDA], and thus defines them: Cervical vertebræ short, femur as long as or longer than the tibia. Huxley divides them into three families: the Megalosauridse, the Scelidosauride, and the I guano dont i dae (q. v.). (Quar. Jour. Geol. Soc ., xxvi. (1870), 1-51.)