monstersaurid

English

Noun

monstersaurid (plural monstersaurids)

1. Any varanoid lizard of the clade Monstersauria
   • 2015 July 16, “Evidence of Egg Diversity in Squamate Evolution from Cretaceous Anguimorph Embryos”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Although present in most closely related anguids, this character is absent in platynotans with the exception of all shinisaurids, the monstersaurid Primaderma and the mosasaurid Dolichosaurus.