condylarth

English

Etymology

From the (disused) order name Condylarthra, from Ancient Greek κόνδυλος (kóndulos, “knuckle”) + ἄρθρον (árthron, “joint”).

Noun

condylarth (plural condylarths)

  1. Any of a group of extinct placental mammals, early ungulates, known from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs.
    • 2018 March 7, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian:
      In the 10 million years after the mass extinction, the first perissodactyls emerged from the confused wastebasket of animals called condylarths.
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