Everything about Pantodonta totally explained
The
Pantodonta are an
order (or, according to some, a
suborder) of now extinct
placental mammals.
Pantodonts are well known from the
Paleocene of North America and Asia, and one early
genus,
Alcidedorbignya, that was found in the Paleocene of South America. Pantodonts started out cat-sized in the early
Paleocene, but by early
Eocene, they'd become cow-sized herbivores, the largest land mammals of their time. Then they abruptly died out by the middle Eocene.
Classification
In the past, the species now classified as Pantodonta were, together with the
Dinocerata and the
Xenungulata species, unified in one order: the
Amblypoda (which means "blunt foot").
But this old classification turned out to be incorrect, and the species it contained were reclassified into three separate orders. It is now believed the pantodonts were related to
Carnivora and
pangolins and they're sometimes regarded a suborder of
Cimolesta.
Further Information
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