Pantodonta

plural noun

Pan·​to·​don·​ta

: a small but widely distributed order of primitive ungulate mammals known from the Paleocene to the Oligocene of North America, Europe, and Asia

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from pant- + -odonta

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