
Condylarth
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thumb|Arctocyon, a [[plantigrade ungulate, was once classified as a condylarth.]]
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- Taxonomic history
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- Taxonomy
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thumb|Arctocyon, a [[plantigrade ungulate, was once classified as a condylarth.]]
Condylarthra is an informal group – previously considered an order – of extinct placental mammals, known primarily from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs. They are considered early, primitive ungulates and is now largely considered to be a wastebasket taxon, having served as a dumping ground for classifying ungulates which had not been clearly established as part of either Perissodactyla or Artiodactyla, being composed thus of several unrelated lineages.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Condylarth” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.