ICTODOSAURIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ictodosauria mean? 

• ICTODOSAURIA (noun)
  The noun ICTODOSAURIA has 1 sense:

1. extinct reptiles of the later Triassic period

  Familiarity information: ICTODOSAURIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ICTODOSAURIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extinct reptiles of the later Triassic period

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Ictodosauria; order Ictodosauria

Hypernyms ("Ictodosauria" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Ictodosauria"):

ictodosaur (intermediate in form between the therapsids and most primitive true mammals)

Holonyms ("Ictodosauria" is a member of...):

subclass Synapsida; Synapsida (extinct reptiles of the Permian to Jurassic considered ancestral to mammals)