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Definition of Subclass metatheria
1. Noun. Pouched animals.
Group relationships: Class Mammalia, Mammalia
Member holonyms: Marsupialia, Order Marsupialia
Generic synonyms: Class
Literary usage of Subclass metatheria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Study of Fossils (plants and Animals) by Hervey Woodburn Shimer (1914)
"(2) The more advanced subclass Metatheria (including Order 2). They produce the
young alive, but in so rudimentary a condition that directly after birth ..."
2. Indian Tribes of Eastern Peru by William Curtis Farabee (1922)
"THE KANGAROO The pelves of the subclass Metatheria as a whole are primitive, but
are interesting from the very diverse specializations which occur among ..."
3. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)
"Upon it was based the former separation of the marsupials as a subclass Metatheria,
of equal rank with the Eutheria or higher mammals, on the one hand, ..."
4. The Principles of Stratigraphical Geology by John Edward Marr (1898)
"... occurring in the Triassic rocks of Britain and the Continent. These mammals
are now placed in a subclass Metatheria of the order Mono- ..."
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