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  Fossil Record of the Xenarthra
Th is left little space for the less specialized edentates, which eventually went e xtinct (Dickson in MacDonald 1984: 770).
In addition to the infraorder Loricata (which comprises armadillos), the second infraorder Vermilingua consists of the anteaters.
There is a spotty fossil reco rd of this infraorder; none have been found any earlier than the Miocene (Dickso n in MacDonald(ed.) 1984: 772).
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /mammal/xenarthra/xenarthrafr.html   (939 words)

  
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Characters were polarized via comparisons to the following successive outgroups, all members of the supraordinal grouping Edentata: the Vermilingua, or anteaters; the Cingulata, or armadillos and glyptodonts; the Palaeanodonta; and the Pholidota, or pangolins.
The results of this analysis provide characters which support the monophyly of the Xenarthra as a whole, as well as its dichotomous division into the clades Cingulata and Pilosa.
In addition, it strongly corroborates the monophyly of the Vermilingua and the Tardigrada.
www.vertpaleo.org /jvp/15-672-705.html   (321 words)

  
 MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Phylogenetic analyses confirm the order’s monophyly and that of its three major lineages: armadillos (Cingulata), anteaters (Vermilingua), and sloths ("Tardigrada", renamed in "Folivora").
This study also strongly supported the grouping of hairy xenarthrans (anteaters and sloths) into the clade Pilosa, to the exclusion of armadillos (Cingulata).
They also questioned the placement of the purported fossil anteater (Eurotamandua) from the Middle Eocene of Europe, with the Vermilingua, and instead suggested the independent and convergent evolution of this enigmatic taxon.
www.isem.univ-montp2.fr /PPP/PM/RES/Phylo/Xen/@Xenarthra.php   (1076 words)

  
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Mammals of the order Xenarthra are found throughout Central and South America and the countries they inhabit can be seen with reference to figure 1.
This group of mammals consists of armadillos (Cingulata), anteaters (Vermilingua), two-toed sloths and three-toed sloths (Pilosa).
In previous times the xenarthrans were a much more diverse group than they are today, with records showing that there are ten times the number of foIssils as there are living genera.
www.biology.leeds.ac.uk /teaching/3rdyear/Blgy3040/griffiths/Xen1.html   (153 words)

  
 Myrmecophagidae or anteaters - TheWebsiteOfEverything.com
Firefighters have helped in an attempt to see if one of London Zoo's rare, giant anteaters is pregnant.
The two species of lesser anteaters are the size of a large domestic cat and have short, coarse, tan to flish hair, usually with a fl band around body and neck.
html The Anteaters are the only family in the infraorder Vermilingua of the order Edentata.
thewebsiteofeverything.com /animals/mammals/Xenarthra/Myrmecophagidae   (380 words)

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