Crossword-Solution: UNGULATA 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Marsupials live now in Australia and in both Americas, because they already existed in Mesozoic times; Ungulata existed at one time or other all over the world except in Australia, because they are post-Cretaceous; Insectivores, although as old as any Placentalia, are cosmopolitan excepting South America and Australia; Stags and Bears, as examples of comparatively recent Arctogaeans, are found everywhere with the exception of Ethiopia and Australia.

The Ungulata or hoofed quadrupeds are now divided into the even-toed or odd-toed divisions; but the Macrauchenia of South America connects to a certain extent these two grand divisions.

Lightfoot belongs to the Deer family, as you all know, and this in turn is in the order called Ungulata, which means hoofed.” Peter Rabbit abruptly sat up, and his ears stood up like exclamation points.

There is still one more member of the order Ungulata and this one is in a way related to another member of Farmer Brown's barnyard.

Within the last few years this has been done fully in the case of the horse, less completely in the case of the other principal types of the ungulata and of the carnivora; and all these investigations tend to one general result, namely, that, in any given series, the successive members of that series present a gradually increasing specialisation of structure.