SUBCLASS PANTOTHERIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does subclass Pantotheria mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBCLASS PANTOTHERIA (noun)

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

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

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

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