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 Amblypoda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Amblypoda is a taxonomic hypothesis uniting a group of extinct, herbivorous mammals.
They were considered a suborder of the primitive ungulate mammals, and have since been shown to represent a polyphyletic group.
These animals are, in fact, descendants of the small ancestral ungulates which retained all the primitive characteristics of the latter accompanied by a huge increase in body size.
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 AMBLYGONITE - LoveToKnow Article on AMBLYGONITE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
It contains about 10% of lithia, and, since 1886, has been utilized as a source of lithium salts, the chief commercial sources being the Montebras deposits, and later the Californian.
(L. AMBLYPODA, a suborder of primitive ungulate mammals, taking its name from the short and stumpy feet, which were furnished with five toes each, and supported massive pillar-like limbs.
In the basal Eocene,of North America the Amblypoda were represented by extremely primitive, five-toed; small ungulates such as Periptychus and Pantolambda, each of these typifying a family.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AM/AMBLYGONITE.htm   (1153 words)

  
 Amblypoda: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Amblypoda
Amblypoda: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Amblypoda
Amblypoda is a suborder of primitive ungulate mammals, taking its name from the short and stumpy feet, which were furnished with five toes each, and supported massive pillar-like limbs.
The brain-cavity was extremely small, and insignificant in comparison to the bodily bulk, which was equal to that of the largest rhinoceroses.
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 UNGULATA - LoveToKnow Article on UNGULATA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In none of the existing, and in but few of the extinct types, are collar-bones, or clavicles, developed; and the scaphoid and lunar bones of the carpus are separate.
The remaining and less typical subordinal groupssometimes ranked as orders by themselvesinclude among living animals the Proboscidea, or elephants, and the Hyracoidea, or hyraxes, and among extinct groups the Amblypoda, Ancylopoda, Barypoda, Condylarthra, Litopterna and Toxodontia.
The characteristics of these groups will be found under their respective headings, with the exception of the Barypoda and Condylarthra, for wnich see ARSINOITHERIUM and PHENACODUS.
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A New Paleocene Uintathere & Molar Evolution in the Amblypoda; SIMPSON,G.G..
Amblypoda Amblypoda is a group of extinct, herbivorous mammals.
Amblypoda: Definition of Amblypoda in Webster's Dictionary 1913 Edition...
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 Paleocene mammals of the world
After larger terrestial animals had become extinct at the end of the Cretaceous, pantodonts, uintatheres and xenungulates were the first mammals to evolve to larger size.
These animals were once united in an order Amblypoda (meaning "blunt foot"), but are today assigned to separate orders Pantodonta, Dinocerata and Xenungulata.
Pantodonts are well known from the Paleocene of North America and Asia.
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 Definition of amblypoda - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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 Ungulate - TheBestLinks.com - Ungulates, Ancylopoda, Amblypoda, Cretaceous, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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Ungulates, Ungulate, Ancylopoda, Amblypoda, Cretaceous, Cetacea, Eocene, Mammal...
Ungulates (meaning roughly "hoofed" or "hoofed animal") make up several orders of mammals, of which six survive:
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