sauroids

Instead of rudimentary trilobites, I noticed remains of a more perfect order of beings, amongst others ganoid fishes and some of those sauroids in which palaeontologists have discovered the earliest reptile forms.

Journey to the Interior of the Earth 2003

Monstrous sauroids transported it in their mouths and deposited it with care.

0 366. From "The Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900 1900

Monstrous sauroids transported it in their mouths, and deposited it with care.

Walt Whitman 1900

Monstrous sauroids transported it in their mouths, and deposited it with care;

Birds and Poets : with Other Papers John Burroughs 1879

Monstrous sauroids transported it in their months,

Leaves of Grass [1867] 1867

Instead of rudimentary trilobites, I noticed remains of a more perfect order of beings, amongst others ganoid fishes and some of those sauroids in which palaeontologists have discovered the earliest reptile forms.

A Journey to the Interior of the Earth Jules Verne 1866

In case 7 he will be struck with the fossil remains of some of the sauroids or lizard-like fishes, only two species of which survive to the present day, but which, in remote ages, abounded in the seas, and were particularly voracious.

How to See the British Museum in Four Visits W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855

Chameleons; for the politician, the philosopher, and the man of science have inevitably figured in hostile reviews under the head of colour-changing sauroids.

How to See the British Museum in Four Visits W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855

Monstrous sauroids transported it in their mouths and deposited it with care.

Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855

However, as bio-kinds, I've only seen two: humanoids and sauroids, although there is one other type that resembles both without being neither.

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