Monotremata (Noun)
Meaning
Coextensive with the subclass Prototheria.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Monotremata is a mammalian order that is coextensive with the subclass Prototheria, consisting of only a few species of egg-laying mammals.
- The group Monotremata, which is coextensive with the subclass Prototheria, originated in the Cretaceous period.
- Monotremata is the only coextensive order with the subclass Prototheria that has survived to the present day.
- Taxonomists agree that Monotremata, an order coextensive with the subclass Prototheria, is one of the most unique groups of mammals.
- The defining characteristics of the class Mammalia diverged into the therian mammals and the order Monotremata, which is coextensive with the subclass Prototheria.