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Xenarthra (/zɛˈnɑːrθrə/; from
Ancient Gr**** ξένος, xénos, "foreign, alien" + ἄρθρον, árthron, "joint") is a
major clade of
placental mammals native to...
- Lim,
Norman T.-L.; Helgen,
Lauren E. (2008). "The hog-badger is not an
edentate:
systematics and
evolution of the
genus Arctonyx (Mammalia: Mustelidae)"...
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discovered in
early 1887 and the same year at
first described as that of an
edentate mammal which he
named Phorusrhacos longissimus. The
generic name is derived...
- Shufeldt, some of the
bones of
Minerva were
interpreted as
belonging to an
edentate mammal by
Alexander Wetmore in 1933, who ****igned the
remaining bones to...
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Earliest true primates,[who?]
along with the
first semelid bivalves,
edentate,
carnivoran and
lipotyphlan mammals, and owls. The
ancestors of the carnivorous...
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examples of
polyphyletic groups are algae, C4
photosynthetic plants, and
edentates. Many
taxonomists aim to
avoid homoplasies in
grouping taxa together,...
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visiting the
specimen personally, and
using comparative anatomy with "
edentate"
mammals (now
recognised as
members of the
order Xenarthra) in the collection...
- like
Cuvier thought the
remains represented those of a
giant pangolin/
edentate. In 1849,
Henri Marie Ducrotay de
Blainville described chalicothere skull...
- the
super order Xenarthra,
which includes the Cingulata.
Xenarthra are
edentate or toothless. They lack
incisors and have a
large reduction in
number of...
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formerly known as Edentata,
which also
includes sloths and armadillos.
Edentates (meaning
without teeth)
diverged from
insectivores during the Cretaceous...
