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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ANC-APO |
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ANCYLOPODA, or ANCYLODACTYLA , an apparently primitive extinct
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Macrotherium, which is typically from the Middle Miocene of Sansan, in Gers, France, may indicate a distinct genus. Limb-bones nearly resembling those of Macrotherium, but relatively stouter, have been described from the Pliocene beds of Attica and Samos as Ancylotherium. In America the names Morotherium and Moropus have been applied to similar bones, on the belief that they indicated edentates. Macrotherium magnum must have been an animal of about 9 ft. in length. The South
See also H. F. Osborn, " The Ancylopoda Chalicotherium and Artionyx,"Amer. Nat. (1893), p. 118, and "Artionyx, a New Genus of Ancylopoda," Bull . Amer. Mus. vol. v. p. I (1893). [N.B.Artionyx was subsequently found to be an Artiodactyle.] (R. L.*)End of Article: ANCYLOPODA, or ANCYLODACTYLA If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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