Whippomorpha
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Whippomorpha is a suborder of artiodactyls that contains all living cetaceans and the hippopotamids. This makes it a crown group. Whippomorpha is a suborder within the order Artiodactyla. The placemen
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A hippopotamus surfacing to breathe
A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) with her calf
An interpretation of Pakicetus
Ancodonta
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Ancodonta is an infraorder of artiodactyl ungulates including modern hippopotamus and all mammals closer to hippos than to cetaceans. Ancodonts first appeared in the Middle Eocene, with some of the ea
Whippomorpha
…Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Artiodactyla Clade: Cetancodontamorpha Suborder: Whippomorpha Waddell et al. 1999 Subgroups Ancodonta Cetaceamorpha Whippomorpha is a suborder of artiodactyls that contains all living cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) and the hippopotamids…
Merycopotamus petrocchii
Hippopotamus in San Diego Zoo