Condylarthra is an informal group – previously considered an order – of extinct placental mammals, known primarily from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs. [1]

Condylarthra, extinct group of mammals that includes the ancestral forms of later, more-advanced ungulates (hoofed placental mammals). The name Condylarthra was once applied to a formal taxonomic order, but it is now used informally to refer to ungulates of Late Cretaceous and Early Paleogene times.

The order Condylarthra is one of the most characteristic groups of Paleocene mammals, and it illustrates well the evolutionary level of the Paleocene mammal fauna. When compared to the mammal fauna of today, condylarths are relatively unspecialized placental mammals.

May 21, 2018 · Condylarthra (cohort Ferungulata, superorder Protoungulata) An extinct order comprising seven families of primitive ungulates, including some that resemble the original eutherian stock so closely that their classification has presented many difficulties; some authors break the order into several different groups, assigned to other orders ...

The meaning of CONDYLARTHRA is an order or suborder of extinct Eocene ungulate mammals having many primitive characters some of which connect them with the Creodonta and being more or less plantigrade with five-toed limbs and a third trochanter.

"A previously unknown genus and species of a primitive litoptern from the late Paleocene (Riochican) of Itaboraí, Brazil, is described, and three previously described didolodontid and litoptern species from Itaboraí are referred to new genera.

5.2 Condylarthra The condylarths (Fig. 5.1) were principally a group of archaic ungulates that origi-nated in Laurasia (the northern, connected continents, except for India) but that arrived in South America in the Late Cretaceous or Early Paleocene. Condylarthra as an order is paraphyletic (not a natural group and does not include all of the

The Condylarthra have as vet been only found in lowest horizon of the Eocene period, the Puerco and Wasatch, and only on the North American Continenit. Appropriately to this position in tiine, its structure indicates that it is the most primitive type of the order of the Perissodactyla. A number of genera and species

Apr 9, 2025 · An extinct order comprising seven families of primitive ungulates, including some that resemble the original eutherian stock so closely that their classification has presented many difficulties; some authors break the order into several different groups, assigned to other orders.

Dec 20, 2018 · 5.2 Condylarthra The condylarths (Fig. 5.1 ) were principally a group of archaic ungulates that originated in Laurasia (the northern, connected continents, except for India) but that arrived in South America in the Late Cretaceous or Early Paleocene.