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Who introduced the scientific taxon Artiodactyla in 1848?
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Reticulated giraffe (Giraffa reticulata), Kenya.
The scientific taxon Artiodactyla was introduced by the British biologist and paleontologist Richard Owen in 1848.1
He formally proposed the term, along with Perissodactyla, in his work titled "Description of Teeth and portions of Jaws of two extinct Anthracotherioid Quadrupeds … with an attempt to develop cuvier's idea of the Classification of Pachyderms by the Number of their Toes," which was published in The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London.1