How To Use Artiodactyl In A Sentence
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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.
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Their decline accelerated during the Oligocene and coincided with the rise of another group of large herbivorous and cursorial mammals, the artiodactyls.
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Both the perissodactyls and artiodactyls underwent a period of rapid evolution during the Miocene.
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Intraordinal comparisons indicate equal rates within rodents and variable rates within perissodactyls and artiodactyls.
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Sirenians are members of the group known as subungulates, thought to be distantly related to hyraxes, elephants, and perhaps, artiodactyls and perissodactyls.
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A new species of muntjac Muntiacus putaoensis (Artiodactyla: Cervidae) from northern Myanmar.
Biological diversity in Indo-Burma
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_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
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They are still members of the order artiodactyla along with all the other kosher mammals.
Discourse.net: Just Passing Through
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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.
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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
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Unlike artiodactyls, perissodactyls either walk on three toes (like rhinos, tapirs, many extinct horses, and other extinct groups) or on a single toe (like recent horses).
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The two major groups of living hoofed mammals are the Artiodactyla, or cloven-hooved mammals; and the Perissodactyla, or odd-toed mammals.
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The 48 mammal species include Chacma baboon Papio cynocephalus ursinus, 5 species of carnivora including the blackbacked jackal Canis mesomelas, ardwolf Proteles cristatus and serval Felis serval, 11 species of artiodactyla and 16 species of rodentia, 11 of which last are endemic to South Africa.
UKhahlamba Drakensberg Park, South Africa
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They found that the hypothesis that a monophyletic Mesonychia is the sister taxon of Cetacea, and a monophyletic Artiodactyla is the extant sister taxon of Cetacea was significantly congruent with the stratigraphic record.
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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.
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On the whole, the hedgehog appeared to evolve at a rate not significantly different from those of Primates, Proboscidea, and Rodentia but faster than those of Carnivora, Perissodactyla, and Artiodactyla.
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There are at least eleven different species intermediate between artiodactyls and cetaceans in the fossil record and they occur in precisely the right sequence expected if cetaceans are derived from artiodactyl ancestors.
Science, Non-Science, and Pseudoscience - The Panda's Thumb
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The 48 mammal species include Chacma baboon Papio cynocephalus ursinus, 5 species of carnivora including the blackbacked jackal Canis mesomelas, ardwolf Proteles cristatus and serval Felis serval, 11 species of artiodactyla and 16 species of rodentia, 11 of which last are endemic to South Africa.
UKhahlamba Drakensberg Park, South Africa
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But exactly where hippos sit on the artiodactyl family tree has proved devilishly difficult to discern.
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Un apertu sur l'Tcologie du chevrotain africain, Hyemoschus aquaticus Ogilby, Artiodactyle Tragulide.
Chapter 11
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Correlated with this diet is the evolution of selenodont molar teeth - teeth with crescent-shaped ridges - for more efficient grinding of plants, as seen in this picture of Eocene artiodactyl teeth.
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Large artiodactyls such as the caribou inhabit subarctic forests.
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Evidence of two genetically deeply divergent species of warthog Phacochoerus africanus and P. aethiopicus (Artiodactyla: Suiformes) in East Africa.
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More advanced artiodactyls, the ruminants, have evolved complex stomachs with three or four chambers.
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Previous paleontological and molecular evidence has indicated that cetaceans and artiodactyls constitute a natural clade within the subclass Eutheria.
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Within the order can be found some of the fastest-running mammals, but the Artiodactyla also includes relatively slow and cumbersome species such as pigs and hippos.
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Notes on the systematics of Babyrousa (Artiodactyla, Suidae).
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The phylogeny and taxonomy of Hippopotamidae (Mammalia: Artiodactyla): a review based on morphology and cladistic analysis.
More on what I saw at the zoo
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A few artiodactyl specialists make a point of using the latter name, but the former is more widely used and would easily win in a fight.
Meet peccary # 4
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However, in a phylogenetic analysis of the complete mitochondrial genome of the Jamaican fruit bat it appeared more closely related to cetferungulates, a clade including Cetacea, Artiodactyla, Perissodactyla, and Carnivora.
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Until recently, zoologists thought the membership list of the order Artiodactyla was limited to hoofed mammals with an even number of toes: camels, cows, deer, giraffes, goats, hippopotamuses, pigs, sheep.
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In view of the divergent anatomy of babirusas, most artiodactyl specialists agree that they represent an ancient lineage, Babyrousinae, which branched off from the rest of Suidae early in its evolution (Thenius 1970).
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Description of Muntiacus truongsonensis, a new species of muntjac (Artiodactyla: Muntiacidae) from central Vietnam, and implications for conservation.
Biological diversity in Indo-Burma
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Отряд парнокопытных (Ordo Artiodactyla), род (Genus sus); семейство свиней (familia suidae).
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Artiodactyl and perissodactyl sequences were used to root the trees.
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Most of them are 59 Chiroptera, but there are also 17 Rodentia, 11 Carnivora, 5 Edentada, 4 Marsupialia, 2 Primates, 2 Artiodactyla, 1 Perissodactyla, and 1 Lagomorpha.
Llanos
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In more recent publications however (Groves 2001, Meijaard & Groves 2002a, b), it has been argued that most of the supposed subspecies are distinct enough to be recognised as distinct species, being as different from one another as are universally recognised species among other artiodactyl groups.
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It has a nice figure of artiodactyl phylogeny, including cetaceans.
Science, Non-Science, and Pseudoscience - The Panda's Thumb
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All artiodactyls have a postorbital bar or process.
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The giant hippopotamus is the only aquatic artiodactyl, spending most of its time in water.
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Artiodactyls range from the rabbit-sized ‘mouse deer’ of southeast Asia to the three-ton giant hippopotamus and ten-foot giraffes.
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Marlin, sailfish, beaked whales and large artiodactyls and the recently discovered bipedal predatory dinosaur Suchomimus tenenerensis have neural spines that have broad anterior-to-posterior surfaces.
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An Eocene peccary from Thailand and the biogeographical origins of the artiodactyl family Tayassuidae.
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Sirenians are members of the group known as subungulates, thought to be distantly related to hyraxes, elephants, and perhaps, artiodactyls and perissodactyls.
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Previous paleontological and molecular evidence has indicated that cetaceans and artiodactyls constitute a natural clade within the subclass Eutheria.
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Le comportement du chevrotain africain, Hyemoschus aquaticus Ogilby (Artiodactyla, Ruminantia).
Chapter 11
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In some way, Entelodonts could represent a continuation of "Andrewsarchid" morphotype, a kind of omnivore, bone-crushing, carrion-eater that could represent the original morphotype of hypothetical mesonychian-andrewsarchid-cetartiodactyl common ancestor.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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Large artiodactyls such as the caribou inhabit subarctic forests.
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Most of them are 59 Chiroptera, but there are also 17 Rodentia, 11 Carnivora, 5 Edentada, 4 Marsupialia, 2 Primates, 2 Artiodactyla, 1 Perissodactyla, and 1 Lagomorpha.
Llanos
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This contrasts with the horns of artiodactyls, which have bone cores, are paired, and are located on the frontals.
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The artiodactyl in the photo is a charismatic and very friendly male Babirusa.
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