Quaternates

Quaternates

An obsolete Order of Mammals created by Henri-Marie Ducrotay de Blainville in 1839, imitating Linnean nomenclature (Primates). It included the suborders Gravigrada, Pachydermata and Ruminantia.

References

*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


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