1904 Amer. Nat. Feb. 103These cynodonts have lost several of the other more primitive characters of the *therocephalians, such as teeth in the palate.
1907 Science 6 Dec. 796 Three new Therocephalian genera have been discovered in beds which are probably Middle Permian.
Ibid. ,The discovery of this new reptile, Galechirus, strongly favors the descent of the Therocephalians from an early Rhyncocephaloid ancestor.
1907 Williston in Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. XXXII. 488The plesiosaurs have a larger temporal vacuity, larger indeed than is to be found in any other reptiles of the *therocrotaphous (I coin the word) type.
1873 W. Cory Lett. &Jrnls. (1897) 311Mahomet's alteration of a national character, the complete obliteration of *therolatry.
1885 Hartmann Anthropoid Apes iii. 111Virchow and W. Gruber have agreed in representing this frontal process as *theromorphological—that is, as a characteristic of the lower animals, and more especially of apes.
ORIGIN: Greek thēro- combining form of thēr wild animal: see -o- .
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