THECODONTS
- THECODONT, a member of the order Thecodontia of archosaurian reptiles with teeth fixed in sockets in the jawbone [n]
- THECODONT [n]
- A fossil quadrupedal or partly bipedal reptile of the Triassic period, having teeth fixed in sockets in the jaw. Thecodonts are ancestral to the dinosaurs and other archosaurs