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Re: Dendrorhynchoids
In a message dated 3/15/2000 3:27:46 PM Pacific Standard Time,
dbensen@gotnet.net writes:
> Does anybody know what Dendrorhynchoids means? I know the second word is "
> beak", but nothing past that.
Well, technically, it means "things that look like _Dendrorhynchus_",
_Dendrorhynchus_ being a genus of Chinese (IIRC) pterosaur, its name meaning
"tree-beak", though the sense intended is "tree-(Rhampho)rhynchus".
"Dendrorhynchoids" should refer to members of the Dendrorhynchoidea, though I
am unaware of any such superfamily having been officially named.
--Nick P.