Sentence examples for most primitive member from inspiring English sources

The most primitive member of the canid family is the Japanese raccoon dog.

Eusthenopteron belongs to a family called the tristichopterids, though it is not the most primitive member of this family.

A challenge to all of these alternative scenarios came when Turner and colleagues in 2007 described a new dromaeosaurid, Mahakala, which they found to be the most basal and most primitive member of the Dromaeosauridae, more primitive than Microraptor.

However in 2012, an expanded and revised study incorporating the most recent Dromaeosaurid finds recovered the Archaeopteryx-like Xiaotingia as the most primitive member of the clade Dromaeosauridae, which appears to suggest the earliest members of the clade may have been capable of flight.

However, with the discovery of an almost complete skeleton and skull in 1988, Herrerasaurus has been classified as either an early theropod or an early saurischian in at least five recent reviews of theropod evolution, with many researchers treating it at least tentatively as the most primitive member of Theropoda.

Till now, the most primitive member of the GH family is the GH found in sea lamprey.

Some paleobotanists suggest that trees are the most primitive members within these plant families.

Its most primitive members were the prosauropods, which included the plateosaurs.

Included in the group are the sawfly, horntail, and wood wasp the most primitive members of the order.

Among the most primitive members of the group, these stages are broadly comparable to those of other mammals of similar size.

It is furthermore true that, among the flowering plants, trees are found not only among the most primitive members (order Magnoliales) but also among the more specialized, or advanced, members, such as the roses (order Rosales).