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Whippomorpha or
Cetancodonta is a
suborder of
artiodactyls that
contains all
living cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) and the hippopotamids....
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according to
Spaulding et al., as
Whippomorpha "plus all
extinct taxa more
closely related to
extant members of
Whippomorpha than to any
other living species"...
- The
Cetruminantia are a
clade made up of the
Cetancodontamorpha (or
Whippomorpha) and
their closest living relatives, the Ruminantia. Cetruminantia's placement...
- cetaceans.
Cetaceans and
ancodonts are now
classified in the
suborder Whippomorpha. This led to some
theories that the last
common ancestors of
hippos and...
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Cetancodontamorpha Genus †Andrewsarchus?
Family †Entelodontidae
Suborder Whippomorpha Family †Raoellidae
Superfamily Dichobunoidea –
paraphyletic to Cetacea...
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Artiodactyla is
divided into four suborders: Ruminantia, Suina, Tylopoda, and
Whippomorpha. The
suborders are
further subdivided into
clades and families. Ruminantia...
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Tylopoda (including Camelidae),
Suina (including
Suidae and Tay****uidae),
Whippomorpha (including
Hippopotamidae and the
infraorder Cetacea), and Ruminantia...
- even-toed ungulates, most
closely related to
hippopotamus within the
clade Whippomorpha.
Cetaceans have been
extensively hunted for
their meat,
blubber and oil...
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Family Tragulidae, 6 - 10
species (chevrotains, or
mouse deer)
Suborder Whippomorpha (aquatic or semi-aquatic even-toed ungulates)
Infraorder Ancodonta Family...
- they
would also be
related to
whales in a
clade provisionally called Whippomorpha. However, the
earliest known anthracotheres appear in the
fossil record...
