allotherian
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Allotheria + -ian.
Noun
[edit]allotherian (plural allotherians)
- (zoology) Any member of the infraclass †Allotheria of extinct mammals.
- 2015 July 16, “Red Iron-Pigmented Tooth Enamel in a Multituberculate Mammal from the Late Cretaceous Transylvanian “Haţeg Island””, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- The gondwanatherian Vintana showing a combination of primitive and highly derived features recently described from the Maastrichtian of Madagascar [75 ] is another example of insular mosaicism in an allotherian mammal but from Southern Hemisphere.