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Ungulata   Listen
noun
Ungulata  n. pl.  (Zool.) An extensive group of mammals including all those that have hoofs. It comprises the Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... appeared in Tertiary times, where they are represented in some of the earlier deposits by all the great divisions of the class fully developed—carnivora, rodents, insectivora, marsupials, and even the perissodactyle and artiodactyle divisions of the ungulata—as clearly defined as at the present day. The discovery in 1818 of a single lower jaw in the Stonesfield Slate of Oxfordshire hardly threw doubt on the generalisation, since either its mammalian character was denied, or the geological position of the strata, in which it was ...
— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace



Words linked to "Ungulata" :   order Dinocerata, placental, Mammalia, eutherian, class Mammalia



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