Definition of Pantotheria

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

Exact synonyms: Subclass Pantotheria
Group relationships: Class Mammalia, Mammalia
Generic synonyms: Class

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pantotheria

Panslavonian
Pantagruelism
Panteutonic
Pantheism
Pantheon
Panther
Panthera
Panthera leo
Panthera onca
Panthera pardus
Panthera tigris
Panthera uncia
Panticapaeum
Pantocrator
Pantotheria
Panum
Panum's area
Panyjima
Panzaism
Panzer
Panzerfaust
Panzers
Panzerschrek
Pao2
Paola
Paola Caliari
Paolo
Paolo Veronese
Pap smear

Literary usage of Pantotheria

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1901)
"1896 B. Lydekker, R. 1887 A, p. ix (pantotheria, In part); p. ... (pantotheria, in part.) 1893 A, p. 379. 1893 D. 1898 L. 1900 C, p. 566. Owen, R. 1838 A, ..."

2. Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America by Oliver Perry Hay (1902)
"1896 B. Lydekker, R. 1887 A, p. ix (pantotheria, in part); p. ... (pantotheria, in part.) 1893 A, p. 379. 1893 D. 1898 L. 1900 C, ..."

3. History of the Human Body by Harris Hawthorne Wilder (1909)
"To this group has been given the name pantotheria, and as the ancestors of all ... While still primitive, however, the pantotheria began to differentiate ..."

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