Thecodontia (meaning `socket-teeth`), now considered an obsolete taxonomic grouping, was formerly used to describe a diverse `order` of early archosaurian reptiles that first appeared in the latest Permian period and flourished until the end of the Triassic period. All of them were built somewhat like crocodiles, but with shorter skulls, more ... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thecodontia
The`co·don'ti·a noun plural [ New Latin ] (Paleon.) A group of fossil saurians having biconcave vertebræ and the teeth implanted in sockets. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/39