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Laurasiatherian Orders

Laurasiatherian Orders is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers the orders of laurasiatherian mammals, carnivorans, bats, whales, hoofed mammals, insectivores and pangolins. An entry belongs here when its own cited article states that it is an order of laurasiatherian mammals. It excludes the primate and rodent orders and southern mammal orders. Members are placed by the classification their cited article gives, not by common name or appearance alone.

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Carnivora (Wikipedia)
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Carnivora ( kar-NIV-ər-ə) is an order of placental mammals specialised primarily in eating flesh, whose members are formally referred to as carnivorans.
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Bat (Wikipedia)
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Bats (order Chiroptera ) are winged mammals, the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight.
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Cetacean (Wikipedia)
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Cetaceans are marine mammals belonging to the infraorder Cetacea (), a secondarily aquatic clade under the order Artiodactyla that include whales, dolphins, porpoises and extinct groups such as Basilosaurus.
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Artiodactyla (Wikipedia)
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Artiodactyla ( AR-tee-oh-DAK-tih-lə; from Ancient Greek ἄρτιος ártios 'even' and δάκτυλος dáktylos 'finger, toe') is an order of placental mammals.
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Perissodactyla (Wikipedia)
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Perissodactyla (, from Ancient Greek περισσός, perissós 'odd' and δάκτυλος, dáktylos 'finger, toe'), or odd-toed ungulates, is an order of ungulates.
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Eulipotyphla (Wikipedia)
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Eulipotyphla (, from eu- "true" + Lipotyphla "lacking blind gut"; sometimes called true insectivores) is an order of mammals comprising the families Erinaceidae (hedgehogs and gymnures), Solenodontidae (solenodons), Talpidae (moles, shrew-like moles and desmans), and Soricidae (true shrews).
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Pangolin (Wikipedia)
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Pangolins, also called scaly anteaters, are mammals of the order Pholidota ().
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Toothed whale (Wikipedia)
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The toothed whales (also called odontocetes, systematic name Odontoceti) are a parvorder of cetaceans that includes dolphins, porpoises, and all other whales with teeth, such as beaked whales and the sperm whales.
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