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Quaternates is an obsolete
Quaternates is an obsolete order
Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to:
* A socio-political or established or existing order, e.g. World order, Ancien Regime, Pax Britannica
* Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood
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of mammal
A mammal () is a vertebrate animal of the Class (biology), class Mammalia (). Mammals are characterised by the presence of milk-producing mammary glands for feeding their young, a broad neocortex region of the brain, fur or hair, and three ...
s created by Henri-Marie Ducrotay de Blainville in 1839, imitating Linnean nomenclature (Primates
Primates is an order of mammals, which is further divided into the strepsirrhines, which include lemurs, galagos, and lorisids; and the haplorhines, which include tarsiers and simians ( monkeys and apes). Primates arose 74–63 ...
). It included the suborders Gravigrada, Pachydermata, and Ruminantia
Ruminants are herbivorous grazing or browsing artiodactyls belonging to the suborder Ruminantia that are able to acquire nutrients from plant-based food by Enteric fermentation, fermenting it in a specialized stomach prior to digestion, principa ...
.
See also
* Secundates * TertiatesReferences
* BLAINVILLE, Henri-Marie Ducrotay de (1839): “Nouvelle classification des Mammifères” in ''Annales Françaises et Etrangères d’Anatomie et de Physiologie Appliquées à la Médicine et à l’Histoire Naturelle'', 3, pp. 268-269 {{Mammal-stub Obsolete mammal taxa Mammal orders Taxa named by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville