precotylar

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ cotylar.

Adjective

precotylar (not comparable)

1. anterior to a cotyle
   • 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:

     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 ]).