monstersaurian

English

Adjective

monstersaurian (comparative more monstersaurian, superlative most monstersaurian)

1. Of or pertaining to the clade Monstersauria.
   • 2005, Daniel David Beck, Biology of Gila Monsters and Beaded Lizards, University of California Press, page 31:

     Thus the genus endured for 10.5 million year, making it among the most persistent of monstersaurian taxa.

   • 2012, MEAD, JIM I., SCHUBERT, BLAINE W., WALLACE, STEVEN C., SWIFT, SANDRA L., “Helodermatid lizard from the Mio-Pliocene oak-hickory forest of Tennessee, eastern USA, and a review of monstersaurian osteoderms.”, in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica‎^[1], volume 57, number 1, page 112:

     Osteoderms, especially those fused to cranial elements, are common in monstersaurians, and in some other lizard groups.

   • 2023 November, Hamilton, Samantha M., Paparella, Ilaria, Bell, Phil R., Campione, Nicolás E., Fanti, Federico, “New Lizard Specimens from the Campanian Wapiti Formation of Alberta, Canada.”, in Geosciences, volume 13, number 11, page 337:

     The DC specimen confirms the presence of monstersaurian squamates in the Wapiti Formation, representing the northernmost record of any definitive Late Cretaceous monstersaur to date.