Cetruminantia
Overview
Clade
A clade is a group consisting of a species and all its descendants. In the terms of biological systematics, a clade is a single "branch" on the "tree of life". The idea that such a "natural group" of organisms should be grouped together and given a taxonomic name is central to biological...
made up of the Cetacodontamorpha
Cetacodontamorpha
Cetancodontamorpha is a total clade of artiodactyls defined, according to Spaulding et al., as "Cetancodonta plus all extinct taxa more closely related to extant members of Cetancodonta than to any other living species." Cetancodonta is the crown clade containing Cetacea and hippopotamuses...
and their closest living relatives, the ruminant
Ruminant
A ruminant is a mammal of the order Artiodactyla that digests plant-based food by initially softening it within the animal's first compartment of the stomach, principally through bacterial actions, then regurgitating the semi-digested mass, now known as cud, and chewing it again...
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