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Definition of Tubulidentata
1. Noun. An order of Eutheria.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Eutheria, Subclass Eutheria
Member holonyms: Family Orycteropodidae, Orycteropodidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tubulidentata
Literary usage of Tubulidentata
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"... many as 23 being present in some species. The cervical vertebrae are also
quite an exception for mam- Fio. 193.—Edentata, Pholidota, and tubulidentata. ..."
2. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1915)
"... in the northern world, from whose early members budded off the ancestral
Xenarthra in the Nearctic, possibly also the Pholidota and tubulidentata in the ..."
3. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"... which will be placed therefore in different groups. To that containing the
Aard Vark, the name tubulidentata may be applied. ..."
4. A History of Land Mammals in the Western Hemisphere by William Berryman Scott (1913)
"tubulidentata, the Aard Vark; an order of placental mammals. Tylopoda, Camels
and Llamas; suborder of Artiodactyla. Tympanic, a bone forming the support of ..."
5. Liberia by Harry Hamilton Johnston, Otto Stapf (1906)
"... evidence to show (at any rate at present) that these two divisions—Pholidota
and tubulidentata—either have an origin in common from one ancestral group, ..."