dryolestid

English

Noun

dryolestid (plural dryolestids)

1. (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.