Editing Ancylopoda

{{Short description|Extinct suborder of mammals}}
{{For|the clade of reptiles|Ankylopoda}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Eocene|Middle Pleistocene}}
| taxon = Ancylopoda
| image = Chalicotherium paris.jpg
| subdivision_ranks = Superfamilies
| subdivision_ref = <ref>{{Cite book
  | last = Jacobs
  | first = Louis L.
  | author2 = Scott, Kathleen Marie
  | year = 1998
  | title = Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America: Terrestrial carnivores, ungulates, and ungulatelike mammals
  | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=I-RgojcDyWYC
  | publisher = Cambridge University Press
  | pages = 561–567, 570–571
  | isbn =978-0-521-35519-3}}</ref>
| subdivision =
*[[Chalicotherioidea]]
*[[Lophiodontidae]]
}}

'''Ancylopoda''' is a group of browsing, [[herbivorous]], [[mammal]]s in the [[Perissodactyla]] that show long, curved and cleft [[claw]]s.<ref>{{cite journal
  | last = Coombs
  | first = Margery C.  
  | author2 = Rothschild, Bruce M.
  | title = Phalangeal Fusion in Schizotheriine Chalicotheres (Mammalia, Perissodactyla)
  | journal = Journal of Paleontology
  | volume = 73
  | issue = 4
  | pages = 682–690
  | publisher = Paleontological Society
  | date = Jul 1999
  | doi = 10.1017/S0022336000032509 
 | jstor = 1306767
  }}<!--| accessdate = 2009-12-31--></ref> [[Morphology (biology)|Morphological]] evidence indicates the Ancylopoda diverged from the [[tapir]]s, [[rhinoceros]]es and [[horse]]s ([[Euperissodactyla]]) after the [[Brontotheria]]; however, earlier authorities such as [[Henry Fairfield Osborn|Osborn]] sometimes considered the Ancylopoda to be outside Perissodactyla or, as was popular more recently,  to be related to [[Brontotheriidae]].{{cn|date=August 2021}}

''[[Macrotherium]]'', which is typically from the middle Miocene of Sansan, in Gers, [[France]], may indicate a distinct [[genus]]. Limb-bones resembling those of ''Macrotherium'', but relatively stouter, have been described from the Pliocene beds of [[Attica]] and [[Samos]] as ''[[Ancylotherium]]''. In the [[Americas]], the names ''Morothorium'' and ''[[Moropus]]'' have been applied to similar bones, in the belief that they indicated [[xenarthrans]]. ''Macrotherium magnum'' must have been an animal of about {{convert|9|ft|abbr=on}} in length.<ref>{{cite journal 
|title=The large-sized darter Anhinga pannonica (Aves, Anhingidae) from the late Miocene hominid Hammerschmiede locality in Southern Germany 
|date=2020-05-06
|publisher=National Library of Medicine
|pmc=7202596 
|last1=Mayr 
|first1=G. 
|last2=Lechner 
|first2=T. 
|last3=Böhme 
|first3=M. 
|journal=PLOS ONE 
|volume=15 
|issue=5 
|pages=e0232179 
|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0232179 
|doi-access=free 
|pmid=32374733 
}}</ref>

==References==
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{{Perissodactyla Genera|T.}}
{{Ancylopoda}}
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[[Category:Ancylopoda| ]]
[[Category:Tapiromorpha]]
[[Category:Eocene first appearances]]
[[Category:Pleistocene extinctions]]


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