Palaeodonta

…artiodactyls are the suiform group Palaeodonta, which had four functional toes on each foot, primitive, low-cusped cheek teeth, and the typical artiodactyl astragalus. The artiodactyls became more prominent in the Oligocene (between about 33.9 million and 23 million years ago) with a decline of the then dominant perissodactyls, and the…