Definition of Meridiolestida. Meaning of Meridiolestida. Synonyms of Meridiolestida

- Meridiolestida is an extinct clade of mammals known from the Cretaceous and Cenozoic of South America and possibly Antarctica. They represented the dominant...
- group, the "Dryolestoidea", which typically includes Dryolestida and Meridiolestida, a diverse group of mammals including both small insectivores and mid-large...
- what is now Argentine Patagonia. It is the most recent known genus of Meridiolestida, an extinct group of mammals more closely related to therians (marsupials...
- Argentina. Its only species is Cronopio dentiacutus. It belongs to the Meridiolestida, an extinct group of mammals widespread in South America during the...
- This is an incomplete list of prehistoric mammals. It does not include extant mammals or recently extinct mammals. For extinct primate species, see: list...
- The Santa Cruz Formation is a geological formation in the Magallanes/Austral Basin in southern Patagonia in Argentina and adjacent areas of Chile. It dates...
- the clade Meridiolestida. Groebertherium has been consistently recovered as a dryolestoid within Dryolestida and outside of Meridiolestida, though its...
- closely related to various South American cladotherians in the clade Meridiolestida, with specific similarities to Mesungulatum, a herbivorous mesungulatid...
- paraphyletic) Paurodontidae, and also sometimes the South American-Antarctic Meridiolestida, which are often considered unrelated cladotherians. Dryolestidae taxon...
- The last known representatives of the archaic primitive mammal order Meridiolestida, which dominated South America during the Late Cretaceous, are known...