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- noun zoology Any of many mammals of the superorder
Xenarthra
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Finally, the supposed anteater Eurotamandua seems not to be an anteater, nor even a xenarthran, and as such there is nothing South American about it [adjacent image shows, at top, skeleton and life restoration of Eurotamandua, with the Eocene pangolin Eomanis at bottom.
Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Finally, the supposed anteater Eurotamandua seems not to be an anteater, nor even a xenarthran, and as such there is nothing South American about it [adjacent image shows, at top, skeleton and life restoration of Eurotamandua, with the Eocene pangolin Eomanis at bottom.
More on phorusrhacids: the biggest, the fastest, the mostest out-of-placest Darren Naish 2006
qroqqa commented on the word xenarthran
member of the mammalian clade Xenarthra, comprising the sloths, anteaters, and armadillos; formerly classified as edentates
July 8, 2008