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- Whippomorpha or Cetancodonta is a group of artiodactyls that contains all living cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) and the hippopotamids. All...
- 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"...
- cetaceans. Cetaceans and ancodonts are now classified in the suborder Whippomorpha. This led to some theories that the last common ancestors of hippos and...
- The Cetruminantia are a clade made up of the Cetancodontamorpha (or Whippomorpha) and their closest living relatives, the Ruminantia. Cetruminantia's placement...
- Artiodactyla is divided into four suborders: Ruminantia, Suina, Tylopoda, and Whippomorpha. The suborders are further subdivided into clades and families. Ruminantia...
- even-toed ungulates, most closely related to hippopotamus within the clade Whippomorpha. Cetaceans have been extensively hunted for their meat, blubber and oil...
- extinct family of semiaquatic digitigrade artiodactyls in the clade Whippomorpha. Fossils of raoellids are found in Eocene strata of South Asia and Southeast...
- Tylopoda (including Camelidae), Suina (including Suidae and Tay****uidae), Whippomorpha (including Hippopotamidae and the infraorder Cetacea), and Ruminantia...
- they would also be related to whales in a clade provisionally called Whippomorpha. However, the earliest known anthracotheres appear in the fossil record...
- (pigs), the Tragulina (chevrotains), the Pecora (ruminants), and the Whippomorpha (hippos and cetaceans, which belong to Artiodactyla from a cladistic...