Litopterna
Translingual
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Proper noun
edit†Litopterna
- A taxonomic order within the class Mammalia – extinct South American native ungulates that lived from the Paleocene to the end of the Pleistocene-early Holocene around 63 million-12,000 years ago, and were also present in Antarctica during the Eocene.
Hypernyms
edit- (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Trechnotheria - subclass; Zatheria - infraclass; Theria - supercohort; Eutheria - cohort; Placentalia - infraclass; Boreoeutheria - clade; Laurasiatheria - superorder; †Meridiungulata - clade
Hyponyms
edit- (order): Didolodontidae, †Notonychopidae, †Protolipternidae, †Sparnotheriodontidae, †Indaleciidae, †Proterotheriidae, †Adianthidae, †Macraucheniidae - families
References
edit- Litopterna on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Litopterna on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Litopterna on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Litopterna at Paleobiology Database