precotylar en · ADJ
Etymology
From pre- + cotylar.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) anterior to a cotyle
Caudal to the precotylar process, there is a glenoid fossa for the dorsal end of the quadrate, called a quadrate cotylus (Figs 2B and3 ; [32 ]).
2015 December 31, “A New Basal Hadrosauroid Dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Khok Kruat Formation in Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Northeastern Thailand”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI: