SUBCLASS PANTOTHERIA

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Pantotheria; subclass Pantotheria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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)