
Condylarth
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thumb|Arctocyon, a [[plantigrade ungulate, was once classified as a condylarth.]]
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thumb|Arctocyon, a [[plantigrade ungulate, was once classified as a condylarth.]]
Condylarthra is an informal group – previously considered an order – of extinct placental mammals, known primarily from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs. They are considered early, primitive ungulates and is now largely considered to be a wastebasket taxon, having served as a dumping ground for classifying ungulates which had not been clearly established as part of either Perissodactyla or Artiodactyla, being composed thus of several unrelated lineages.