How To Use Xenarthra In A Sentence
- Attempts to resolve the relationships of Xenarthra and Pholidota to other eutherian mammals have not yet been exhausted.
- In contrast with the Xenarthra, the Old World Pholidota is not trophically diverse and contains only the myrmecophagous pangolins, or scaly anteaters.
- I read, first "The aquatic sloth Thalassocnus (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from the Late Miocene of North-Central Chile: biogeographic and ecological implications," and then went back to the long-neglected Victorians and the Prehistoric: Tracks to a Lost World. Pictures That Move, and Pictures That Have Ceased Moving
- In South America, a group known as the Xenarthrans developed, today represented by the anteaters, sloths and armadillos.
- Living xenarthrans are represented by three morphologically distinct lineages: armored armadillos, toothless anteaters, and phyllophagous tree-sloths.
- Tail blow energy and carapace fractures in a large glyptodont (Mammalia, Xenarthra). More on phorusrhacids: the biggest, the fastest, the mostest out-of-placest
- This is called the ungual crest and helps anchor the keratinous covering of the claw onto the ungual: it's present in some sloths and anteaters too, and outside of xenarthrans is seen in cats. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
- In South America, a group known as the Xenarthrans developed, today represented by the anteaters, sloths and armadillos.
- All orders are labelled and major lineages are coloured as follows: black, Monotremata; orange, Marsupialia; blue, Afrotheria; yellow, Xenarthra; green, Laurasiatheria; and red, Euarchontoglires. The Panda's Thumb: March 2007 Archives
- Several groups of xenarthrans successfully crossed the Central American land bridge to North America when it formed in the Pliocene; these included a number of kinds of ground sloths and armadillos.