Dryolestid
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Dryolestid is a noun meaning (zoology) Any of a group of extinct mammals of the order †Dryolestida.
Meaning
(zoology) Any of a group of extinct mammals of the order †Dryolestida.
Example Sentences
A dog-sized dryolestid, Peligrotherium, the ‘lazy beast’, is known from the early Paleocene of Patagonia, while another, Necrolestes, the ‘grave-robber’, is from the same part of the world, but much later, in the Miocene.
Word Forms
- dryolestids
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dryolestoid, dryosaurid, dryopithecid, desmostylid, docodontid, dryomorph.
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