PANTOTHERIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pantotheria mean? 

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

1. generalized extinct mammals widespread during the Jurassic; commonly conceded to be ancestral to marsupial and placental mammals

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PANTOTHERIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Generalized extinct mammals widespread during the Jurassic; commonly conceded to be ancestral to marsupial and placental mammals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Pantotheria; subclass Pantotheria

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

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

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

class Mammalia; Mammalia (warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female)