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Sphenodon

NOUN
  1. coextensive with the order Rhynchocephalia: tuataras

How To Use Sphenodon In A Sentence

  • But most birds and Sphenodon lack intromittent organs and transfer sperm by cloacal apposition.
  • At some point, the researchers do not know exactly when, an unknown factor allowed lizards and snakes to rise to dominance in South America, relegating the sphenodontids to the relic tuataras in isolated New Zealand.
  • Zealand -- the "tuatara" or Sphenodon -- entered its area at a still earlier stage of surface change. More Science From an Easy Chair
  • Many years later euryapsids had vanished into the lepidosaurs sphenodon, snakes and lizards-all diapsids as a secondary change, and then there was the term “sauropsid” which I saw for the 1st time at AMNH which gathered together all non synapsids and non turtles. Drawing a Line in the Academic Sand - The Panda's Thumb
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