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Palaeodonta
fossil mammal
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- In artiodactyl: Evolution and paleontology
…artiodactyls are the suiform group Palaeodonta, which had four functional toes on each foot, primitive, low-cusped cheek teeth, and the typical artiodactyl astragalus. The artiodactyls became more prominent in the Oligocene (between about 33.9 million and 23 million years ago) with a decline of the then dominant perissodactyls, and the…
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