What is Cetartiodactyla?
{{Taxobox | name = Cetartiodactyls | image = | image_width = 245px | image2 = Tursiops truncatus 01.jpg | image2_width =245px | fossil_range = late [[Palaeocene]] - Recent | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[Mammalia]] | infraclassis = [[Eutheria]] | superordo = [[Laurasiatheria]] | unranked_familia = '''Cetartiodactyla''' | subdivision_ranks = Orders | subdivision = *Order: [[Cetacea]] *Suborders: **[[Suina]] **[[Tylopoda]] **[[Ruminantia]] *Family: [[Hippopotamidae]] }} [[File:Chèvre (06).jpg|thumb|Goat, an even-toed ungulate]] '''Cetartiodactyla''' is the [[Taxonomy|taxonomical]] [[order (biology)|superorder]] which includes [[whale]]s (and [[dolphin]]s) and [[even-toed ungulate]]s. The name was created by merging the name for the two orders, [[Cetacea]] and [[Artiodactyla]], into a single word. Cetartiodactyla is used because it is thought that whales [[evolution|evolved]] from the artiodactyls. Because of this, their closest living land relative may be the [[hippopotamus]]. {{Wikispecies|Cetartiodactyla}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Mammals]]