However, the category was rejected by most 20th-Century herpetologists and paleontologists, who sought, instead, to demonstrate a close relationship between mosasaurs and varanid (monitor) lizards and who generally considered snakes to have evolved from terrestrial, burrowing lizards (see, for example, Russell, 1967). Cope`s Pythonomorpha was lat....
• (n. pl.) Same as Mosasauria.
Pyth`o·no·mor'pha noun plural [ New Latin See Python , and -morphous .] (Paleon.) Same as Mosasauria .