Sentence examples for small extant from inspiring English sources

The very, very small extant fragment of this correspondence is housed in the Rare Book Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

No subfossil evidence has been found to definitively show that lemurs were its prey; this assumption is based on the diet of the smaller, extant species of fossa.

With a total length averaging 1.4 m for males and typically up to 1.2 m for females, Cuvier's dwarf caiman is not only the smallest extant species in the alligator and caiman family, but also the smallest of all crocodilians.

An Arabic version of Euclid's Optics also helped al-Kindî develop his theory of vision, expressed in his De Aspectibus and two smaller treatises (extant in Arabic only).

The NESARC sample size was chosen to be sufficiently large to produce nationally representative proportions for the study of substance abuse and dependence and mental disorders by demographic group with CIs equal to or smaller than extant studies.

This theory is supported by interpretations of the fossil record suggesting that the earliest metazoans were much smaller than extant species, perhaps resembling modern meiofauna [ 33] or ciliated metazoan larvae [ 34].

The Greeks left mostly musical theories and only a small amount of extant music.

On the other hand, Klibansky [1982], pp. 27 28, says, "these works had a wider circulation than the comparatively small number of extant manuscripts would presuppose.

These data place the Brooklyn Museum's lamp among a small number of extant Mamluk mosque lamps known to include an integral wick-holder and supports the supposition that the use of such wick-holders in Mamluk lamps relates to the vessel's size, rather than to a technological shift.

The methodology exemplifies a model for refining and re-theorising a linguistic framework to be robustly applied in linguistic analysis of a particular field in a particular context, starting with the collection and analysis of a small sample using extant theory, then development of the refined model based on a larger study.

Our analysis also suggests that the ancestors of both placental mammals and birds were not small, compared with extant species.