Notoungulata

plural noun

No·​to·​ungulata

ˌnōtˌō+

: an order of extinct New World herbivorous mammals widely distributed in South America from the Paleocene to the Pleistocene

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from not- + Ungulata

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