Sentences with phrase «suborder of»
I chose the Therocephalians which are an extinct suborder of carnivorous eutheriodont therapsids that lived from the middle and late Permian into the Triassic.
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The most primitive mammals probably appeared in the late Triassic, descending from a mammal - like suborder of theraspid reptiles known as cynodonts.
The Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal belonging to the suborder of baleen whales.
«Once captured, prey was likely sucked deeper into the mouth for swallowing — a technique which, ultimately, may have given rise to baleen and filter feeding in the modern Mysticeti suborder of whales,» Dr Marx says.
There are two suborders of cetaceans:
Not exact matches
Snakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears.
Unlike most other cephalopods, the majority of octopuses - those in the suborder most commonly known, Incirrata - have almost entirely soft bodies with no internal skeleton.
«True bugs» are limited to the order Hemiptera — nitpicky types would limit them to the suborder Heteroptera — which, of the above, includes only bedbugs.
Most fish species perished when the Antarctic Ocean turned cold and icy, but fishes of one suborder, Notothenioidei, met the challenge.
A revision of the fossil swifts (Vertebrata, Aves, suborder Apodi), with descriptions of three new genera and two new species
They believe that this group of creatures may have even been the oldest and largest crocodylomorph suborder in the planet's history.
It is likely that the Razana may have also predated other members of the Nortosuchia suborder by about 42 million years.
The research team found that the remains are those of a crocodylomorph belonging to the Notosuchia suborder.
From Wikipedia: «A nudibranch / ˈnjuːdɨbræŋk / is a member of what is now a taxonomic clade, and what was previously a suborder, of soft - bodied, marine gastropod mollusks which shed their shell after their larval stage.