dryolestid
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[edit]Noun
[edit]dryolestid (plural dryolestids)
- (zoology) Any of a group of extinct mammals of the order †Dryolestida.
- 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 102:
- 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.