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amblypod, n. Palaeont.|ˈæmblɪpɒd|
[f. mod.L. Amblypoda (coined in E. D. Cope Syst. Catal. Vertebrata Eocene New Mexico (U.S. Army Engin. Dept.: Geogr. Explorations & Surveys) (1875) 28), f. Gr. ἀµβλύ-ς blunt + πούς, ποδ- foot.]
A mammal of the former order Amblypoda (now separated into the orders Pantodonta and Dinocerata), comprising large, mainly hoofed ungulates which were widely distributed in North America, Europe, and East Asia in the Early Tertiary.
[1887E. D. Cope in Amer. Naturalist XXI. 987 All ungulates, in passing from the taxeopodous to the diplarthrous stages, traversed the amblypodous.] 1893Funk's Stand. Dict. s.v. Ambly-, Amblypod. 1927Haldane & Huxley Animal Biol. xi. 243 (caption) Herbivorous forms with defensive horns or other weapons... Amblypod. 1933Amer. Jrnl. Sci. CCXXV. 423 Gidley's conception of a titanothere relationship has not been sustained, in fact, he later abandoned the idea in favor of amblypod affinities. 1985D. Lambert Cambr. Field Guide Prehist. Life viii. 170 Amblypods (‘slow footed’) were early, ponderous hoofed herbivores with broad, low, ridged cheek teeth. |