Mesonychia

Extinct taxon of carnivorous ungulates

Mesonychia ("middle claws") is an extinct order of small to large-sized omnivorous to carnivorous hoofed mammals related to ungulates. Originally, it was hypothesized that mesonychians were a group of ungulates, however recent analysis now found them to be outside of the group entirely. Instead were a basal order of hoofed mammals within Pan-Euungulata.

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