Tylopoda


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Ty`lop´o`da

    (tī`lǒp´ô`då)
n. pl.1.(Zool.) A tribe of ungulates comprising the camels.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Dromedaries are not ruminants (suborder Ruminantia) but rather are Tylopoda, a suborder of Artiodactyla, which also includes the 2-humped camel (Camelus bactrianus), wild Bactrian camel (C.
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Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus), as a large mammal belonging to Camelus, Camelidae, Tylopoda and Pacentalia (Corbet & Hill, 1991), is located in the desert, semi-desert regions in the north and northwest China.
Expression of Aquaporin 2, Aquaporin 3 and Aquaporin 4 in Renal Medulla of Bactrian Camel (Camelus bactrianus)/Expresion de Acuaporina 2, Acuaporina 3 y Acuaporina 4 en la Medula Renal del Camello Bactriano (Camelus bactrianus)
Tylopoda (oromerycids, camelids, oreodontoids, protoceratids): Ms primitively bunoselenodont, quadrate, each with mesostyle plus bitubercular distal lobe bearing enlarged metaconule as distolingual cusp; ectomesocuneiform (North American origin).
Early evolution, diversification, and geographic distribution of the suborders constituting the mammalian order artiodactyla
Numerosa evidencia molecular (e.g., Waddell et al., 1999; Murphy et al., 2001) confirman la cercania de los Hippopotamidae con los Cetacea, incluso respaldada por datos morfologicos (Boisserie et al., 2005); sin embargo, la relacion con los otros subordenes de artiodactilos (Ruminantia, Suiformes, Tylopoda) no ha sido completamente esclarecida y sigue sujeta a una mas precisa resolucion taxonomica.
Riqueza, endemismo y conservacion de los mamiferos de Colombia
Since the cones/conids are crescentic in outline, it can safely be included in Ruminantia and Tylopoda (Romer, 1974; Zittel, 1925).
Hydaspitherium (Artiodactyla: Giraffidae) from the Dhok Pathan Formation of the Middle Siwaliks, Pakistan: New Collection

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