Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tetanuran

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: teta-nu-ran
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any theropod of the clade Tetanurae, all theropods, including birds, that are more closely related to modern birds than to the genus †Ceratosaurus.

adj

Of or pertaining to the dinosaurs of the clade Tetanurae.

Example Sentences

"The oldest tetanuran, the crested allosauroid Cryolophosaurus, was discovered in Lower Jurassic rocks on Antarctica and is quite similar to allosauroids from Upper Jurassic rocks on several continents."
"During Late Cretaceous times, the top predators in most Laurasian terrestrial ecosystems were the large-bodied tyrannosaurids, which suggests that this tetanuran clade may have originated after the split between Laurasia and Gondwana."

Etymology

Tetanurae + -an

Word Breakdown

Suffix: an

Inflected Forms

tetanurans (plural)

Questions

What does tetanuran mean?: Any theropod of the clade Tetanurae, all theropods, including birds, that are more closely related to modern birds than to the genus †Ceratosaurus.
Where does tetanuran come from?: Tetanurae + -an

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