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Quaternates
Quaternates is an obsolete order of mammals created by Henri-Marie Ducrotay de Blainville in 1839, imitating Linnean nomenclature (Primates). It included the suborders Gravigrada, Pachydermata, and Ruminantia.
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- Mammiferes.jpeg by BLAINVILLE, Henri-Marie Ducrotay de, Public domain
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