Tyrannosauroid
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Tyrannosauroid is a noun meaning Any dinosaur of the superfamily Tyrannosauroidea.
Meaning
Any dinosaur of the superfamily Tyrannosauroidea.
Example Sentences
Two skeletons of the oldest known tyrannosauroid have been discovered in what used to be wetland in the Gobi desert of western China.
The discovery of simple, shaftless feathers on Dilong paradoxus, a 2-metre-long basal tyrannosauroid from the early Cretaceous of China, led to the suggestion that the tyrannosauroids as a group were feathered.
Word Forms
- tyrannosauroids
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tyrannosaurine, tyrannosaurid, titanosauroid, megalosauroid, tyrannosaur, tyrannoraptoran.
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