单词 | amblypod |
释义 | amblypodn. Palaeontology. Now chiefly historical. Any of various primitive hoofed mammals of the early Tertiary, typically having a heavy body, massive limbs, and stumpy feet, constituting the former order Amblypoda.This order is now regarded as polyphyletic and its members are divided among the orders Pantodonta, Dinocerata, and ‘ Condylarthra’. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > fossil or extinct legh1774 thylacothere1838 anthracothere1848 anchithere1868 amblypod1877 Bramathere1879 multituberculate1888 promammal1889 tillodont1889 tinoceratid1895 uintathere1898 arsinoitherium1902 symmetrodont1933 synapsid1956 1877 E. D. Cope in Rep. U.S. Geogr. Surv. West 100th Meridian (Engineer Dept., U.S. Army) IV. xii. 274 I have verified this fact in the Creodont Oxyœna and the Amblypod Coryphodon in the preceding pages. 1933 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 225 423 Gidley's conception of a titanothere relationship has not been sustained, in fact, he later abandoned the idea in favor of amblypod affinities. 1985 D. Lambert Cambr. Field Guide Prehist. Life viii. 170 Amblypods (‘slow footed’) were early, ponderous hoofed herbivores with broad, low, ridged cheek teeth. 2006 K. D. Rose Beginning Age Mammals vii. 114/1 Pantodonts were long grouped with ungulates, either together with uintatheres as amblypods, as paenungulates.., or linked with arctocyonids. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1877 |
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