How To Use Cynodon In A Sentence
- The tritylodonts were among the last of the cynodonts to appear.
- The last dicynodont: an Australian Cretaceous relict. Archive 2006-05-01
- Rhyncosaurs and cynodonts are far more common, and in fact the rhyncosaur Scaphonix accounts for half of all tetrapod fossils.
- Luo and coworkers find that Haramiyavia is not even a mammaliform but an aberrant cynodont.
- The cynodonts are sometimes thought to be mammalian ancestors, but there are minor features which debar them, some believe, from such position.
- The Allotheria are so different from anything else that one can almost imagine their derivation from an entirely separate line of cynodonts.
- As Rowe points out, the early cynodonts were the first synapsids in which the brain filled the endocranial cavity.
- The wide diversity of large aetosaurs suggests that they have taken over the role of big herbivore vacated by the trilophosaurs, rhynchosaurs, and dicynodonts with their disappearance from the region at the end of the Carnian.
- Seven major grassland types have been identified, which consitute about 20% of the park's area: Themeda villosa forms a tall grass cover in clearings in the sal forest; Saccharum-Narenga associations grow as mixed and pure stands of tall grass (Saccharum spontaneum is one of the first species to colonize newly created sandbanks); Arundo-Phragmites associations form dense tall stands along stream beds on the floodplain and around lakes; Imperata cylindrica grows prolificallyin areas within the park which were occupied by villages prior to their evacuation in 1964; various short grasses and herbs grown on exposed sandbanks during the dry months and become much more prolific with the outset of rain in May (e.g. Polygonum plebeium, Persicaria spp. and sedges such as Cyperus, Kyllinga and Mariscus spp.); Cynodon dactylon and Chrysopogon aciculatus and other short grasses grow in highest areas near riverine forest all the year round; and low-lying stands of Saccharum spontaneum, which are destroyed by repeated flooding early in the monsoon. Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal
- The image above combines Laurie Beirne’s dicynodont life restoration, used in the press releases for Thulborn & Turner (2003), and on the front cover of the relevant issue of Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, with a photo of the Australian fossil. Archive 2006-05-01