noun
- dinosaurs belonging to the order Saurischia, characterized by having hip bones arranged like those of lizards
Usage: paleontology
Examples
- Saurischians include both carnivorous theropods and herbivorous sauropods.
- The museum’s dinosaur exhibit featured several saurischians from the Jurassic period.
- Scientists classify Tyrannosaurus rex among the saurischians.
- Saurischians are distinguished from ornithischians by their pelvic structure.
- The fossil record shows that saurischians dominated many prehistoric ecosystems.
- Paleontologists discovered new saurischians in the rock formations of Argentina.