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Definition of Prototherian
1. Noun. Primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea.
Definition of Prototherian
1. Adjective. Belonging or pertaining to the subclass Prototheria of monotremes. ¹
2. Noun. Any of the egg-laying mammals of the subclass Prototheria; a monotreme. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prototherian
Literary usage of Prototherian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1904)
"85) to show their multituberculate crowns, which closely resemble the teeth of
some of the earliest prototherian mammals found fossil. A figure is added (p. ..."
2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"... the two principal features of the Eutherian as opposed to the prototherian
mammals. nevertheless it seems probable that the Marsupial tribe is derived ..."
3. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1914)
"Multituberculates quite independently of all the other mammals from a Triassic
prototherian ancestor. In 1910 I published a paper 'On ..."
4. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"They are regarded, however, as prototherian mammals, allied to the monotremes
and marsupials. The remains are fragmentary, teeth being the most significant ..."
5. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"They are regarded, however, as prototherian mammals, allied to the monotremes
and marsupials. The remains are fragmentary, teeth being the most significant ..."
6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1885)
"... of Mammalian evolution, perhaps in the prototherian stage, as I have indicated
by the vertical line dividing the upper semicircle into two equal parts. ..."
7. Arboreal Man by Frederic Wood Jones (1916)
"... and the long muzzle becomes typical and emblematic of this association in all
primitive Mammals, prototherian, Metatherian, or Eutherian. ..."
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