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  • They name this clade Pegasoferae, a name derived by uniting Pegasus (in their view a sort of bat-perissodactyl combination) with Ferae (the name they use for the carnivoran + pangolin clade). Archive 2006-08-01
  • 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
  • The number of teeth is variable, but in many species it is smaller than the number found in perissodactyls.
  • Sirenians are members of the group known as subungulates, thought to be distantly related to hyraxes, elephants, and perhaps, artiodactyls and perissodactyls.
  • Much of my work has emphasized chalicotheres, an unusual group of clawed perissodactyls.
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  • Perissodactyla and all the other orders of hair-covered, milk-producing animals are grouped together in a "class," Mammalia. Lazarus, Elvis, zombies and Jimmy Hoffa
  • My major interest is the chalicotheres, a group of extinct clawed herbivorous perissodactyls.
  • Equidae is then grouped with two other families, the rhinoceroses and the tapirs, to make up an "order," Perissodactyla, the odd-toed ungulates. Lazarus, Elvis, zombies and Jimmy Hoffa
  • However, the degree of dimorphism in some clades of mammals, including perissodactyls, does not correlate with the degree of polygyny.
  • 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
  • Artiodactyl and perissodactyl sequences were used to root the trees.
  • Horses are members of the odd-toed ungulates, Perissodactyla. Letters to the Editor
  • Cladistic analysis of the family Rhinocerotidae (Perissodactyla). Are Sumatran rhinos really ‘living fossils’?
  • 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.
  • Phylogenetic relationships of the five extant rhinoceros species (Rhinocerotidae, Perissodactyla) based on mitochondrial cytochrome b and 12S rRNA genes. Archive 2006-09-01
  • It actually says, "A solid-hoofed perissodactyl ungulate mammal" which may not be any more satisfactory, but is certainly more thorough.
  • Two other perissodactyl families are extinct in the Old World: tapir-like paleotheres and chalicotheres, largish horse-like animals with claws instead of hooves.
  • Most perissodactyl lineages went extinct in the late Eocene or Oligocene.
  • Divergence estimates between extant perissodactyl species were closely correlated with calibration age - the divergence between rhinos and tapirs, for example, differed by an order of magnitude depending on the calibration applied.
  • 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.
  • The perissodactyls were once much more numerous.
  • The two major groups of living hoofed mammals are the Artiodactyla, or cloven-hooved mammals; and the Perissodactyla, or odd-toed mammals.
  • The horse's single toe on each of its four feet is its most marked anatomical characteristic and makes it a perissodactyl or odd-toed ungulate.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • Sirenians are members of the group known as subungulates, thought to be distantly related to hyraxes, elephants, and perhaps, artiodactyls and perissodactyls.
  • Intraordinal comparisons indicate equal rates within rodents and variable rates within perissodactyls and artiodactyls.
  • Both the perissodactyls and artiodactyls underwent a period of rapid evolution during the Miocene.

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