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PANTOTHERIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Generalized extinct mammals widespread during the Jurassic; commonly conceded to be ancestral to marsupial and placental mammals
Synonyms:
Pantotheria; subclass Pantotheria
Classified under:
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)