probainognathian

noun

A members of the Probainognathia clade of therapsid animals.

Scrabble 24

Meanings

nounprobainognathian (plural probainognathians)

plural probainognathians

  1. A members of the Probainognathia clade of therapsid animals.

    Their evidence suggests that fur and whiskers appeared early on in the ancestry of mammals, in the earliest probainognathians.

    2016 September 7, Elsa Panciroli, “Did milk and fur evolve before the earliest mammals?”, in The Guardian
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