Quaternates is an obsolete order of mammals created by Henri-Marie Ducrotay de Blainville in 1839, imitating Linnean nomenclature (

Primates Primates are a diverse order of mammals. They are divided into the strepsirrhines, which include the lemurs, galagos, and lorisids, and the haplorhines, which include the tarsiers and the simians (monkeys and apes, the latter includin ...

). It included the suborders Gravigrada, Pachydermata, and

Ruminantia Ruminants ( suborder Ruminantia) are hoofed herbivorous grazing or browsing mammals that are able to acquire nutrients from plant-based food by fermenting it in a specialized stomach prior to digestion, principally through microbial actions. Th ...

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{{reflist * 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 Obsolete mammal taxa Mammal orders Taxa named by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville

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