Fissipedia
Former suborder of mammals / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fissipedia ("split feet") is a former suborder of placental mammals comprising the largely land-based families of the order Carnivora.[3] In some former taxonomic classifications, Pinnipedia is treated as an suborder in order Carnivora alongside Fissipedia and Creodonta.[4] rather than as a subgroup of "dog-like" carnivorans.
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Suborder: | Fissipedia Blumenbach, 1791[1] |
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