Quaternates

Last updated February 16, 2025

Nouvelle classification des Mammiferes (1839) Mammiferes.jpeg — *Nouvelle classification des Mammifères* (1839)

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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BLAINVILLE, Henri-Marie Ducrotay de (1839): “Nouvelle classification des Mammifères” in Annales Françaises et Etrangères d’Anatomie et de Physiologie Appliquées à la Médicine et à l’Histoire Naturelle, 3, pp. 268-269

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Quaternates

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