biarmosuchian

English

Noun

biarmosuchian (plural biarmosuchians)

1. (zoology) Any therapsid of the suborder Biarmosuchia.
   • 2011, Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan, Forerunners of Mammals: Radiation • Histology • Biology, page 10:

     There is a set of scleral ossicles around the eye that are also found in another biarmosuchian, Lemurosaurus, and certain other pelycosaurs and therapsids, indicating that it is probably a plesiomorphic therapsid character.