Definition of Order Dinocerata

1. Noun. Small order of primitive ungulates of the Paleocene and Eocene.

Exact synonyms: Dinocerata
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Ungulata
Member holonyms: Family Uintatheriidae, Uintatheriidae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Dinocerata

order Crocodylia
order Cuculiformes
order Cycadales
order Cycadofilicales
order Cyclostomata
order Cydippea
order Cydippida
order Cydippidea
order Cypriniformes
order Decapoda
order Dermaptera
order Dermoptera
order Diapensiales
order Dicranales
order Dictyoptera
order Dinocerata (current term)
order Dinoflagellata
order Dinornithiformes
order Diptera
order Discocephali
order Ebenales
order Edentata
order Embiodea
order Embioptera
order Endomycetales
order Entomophthorales
order Ephemerida
order Ephemeroptera
order Equisetales
order Ericales

Literary usage of Order Dinocerata

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

1. The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late Alfred Henry Garrod by Alfred Henry Garrod, William Alexander Forbes (1881)
"Most of my information is obtained from the papers by Professor Marsh on the order Dinocerata, together with the critical remarks made by him on Professor ..."

2. The Popular Science Monthly (1888)
"He says in regard to the order Dinocerata, a group of gigantic mammals whose remains have been found in the tertiary deposits of the Rocky Mountain region, ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1888)
"He says in regard to the order Dinocerata, a group of gigantic mammals whose remains have been found iu the tertiary deposits of the Rocky Mountain region, ..."

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