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IF any further evidence were needed to disprove Cuvier's famous generalisation, it is found in the recently discovered hind foot of Artionyx. In this foot each of the digits with all the phalanges are modified very much as in the primitive bears, and combined with metatarsals and an ankle joint almost identical with those of the pigs. The termination of the limb in claws would have led Cuvier to predict that the whole skeleton and the dentition was of a clawed or carnivorous type, whereas in this animal we find the foot alone belongs to two types as widely separated as can be, and the probabilities are that the skeleton and teeth are also mixed in character.
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OSBORN, H. Artionyx – A Clawed Artiodactyle. Nature 47, 610–611 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/047610a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/047610a0