artiodactyl

How To Use artiodactyl In A Sentence

• Experts agree that hippos belong to the mammalian order Artiodactyla, a group of even-toed, hoofed creatures whose extant representatives include camels, pigs and ruminants such as cows.
• Their decline accelerated during the Oligocene and coincided with the rise of another group of large herbivorous and cursorial mammals, the artiodactyls.
• Both the perissodactyls and artiodactyls underwent a period of rapid evolution during the Miocene.
• Intraordinal comparisons indicate equal rates within rodents and variable rates within perissodactyls and artiodactyls.
• Sirenians are members of the group known as subungulates, thought to be distantly related to hyraxes, elephants, and perhaps, artiodactyls and perissodactyls.
• A new species of muntjac Muntiacus putaoensis (Artiodactyla: Cervidae) from northern Myanmar. Biological diversity in Indo-Burma
• _Osteology of the feet in Ruminantia_, Artiodactyla -- The following illustrations were inadvertently omitted from the text in the section on the _Artiodactyla_. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
• They are still members of the order artiodactyla along with all the other kosher mammals. Discourse.net: Just Passing Through
• The early Eocene is important for another reason: many orders of fossil mammals (especially primates, perissodactyls, artiodactyls, rabbits, whales, and bats) make their first appearances in the fossil record.
• In all, 4 species of insectivora, 4 bats, 5 lagomorphs, 32 rodents, 18 carnivores, 9 artiodactyla, 5 lizards and 3 snakes are recorded in the Tuvan reserves, among them 22 locally rare species of mammal. 41 species of mammal are recorded for the Mongolian portion. Uvs Nuur Basin, Russian Federation, Republic of Tuva and Mongolia