thecodont

English Thesaurus

1. presumably in the common ancestral line to dinosaurs and crocodiles and birds (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	archosaur, archosaurian, archosaurian reptile,
definition	:	extinct reptiles including: dinosaurs; plesiosaurs; pterosaurs; ichthyosaurs; thecodonts (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	order thecodontia, thecodontia,
definition	:	extinct terrestrial reptiles having teeth set in sockets; of the late Permian to Triassic (noun.animal)