Definition of Order pelycosauria

1. Noun. Edaphosaurus; dimetrodon.

Exact synonyms: Pelycosauria
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Subclass Synapsida, Synapsida
Member holonyms: Pelycosaur, Edaphosauridae, Family Edaphosauridae, Genus Dimetrodon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Pelycosauria

order Opuntiales
order Orchidales
order Ornithischia
order Orthoptera
order Ostariophysi
order Ostracodermi
order Palmales
order Pandanales
order Papaverales
order Parietales
order Pectinibranchia
order Pediculati
order Pedipalpi
order Pelecaniformes
order Pelycosauria
order Perciformes
order Percomorphi
order Perissodactyla
order Peronosporales
order Pezizales
order Phalangida
order Phallales
order Phasmatodea
order Phasmida
order Pholidota
order Picariae
order Piciformes
order Piperales
order Plantaginales

Literary usage of Order pelycosauria

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

1. Syllabus of Lectures on the Vertebrata by Edward Drinker Cope, Henry Fairfield Osborn (1898)
"... American Philosophical Society of this year he established the sub-order Pelycosauria of the Rhynchocephalia to contain ..."

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