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   >> topology, are Zooamata or Ferungulata, which are younger.   
   >>   
   >> As support for hooves as a convergent trait, not all mesonychians   
   >> (which are stem artiodactyls) possessed hooves. However there is   
   >> dispute whether the hoofless mesonychians (arctocyonids) are   
   >> stem-artiodactyls.   
   >   
   > The whole problem with these claims is that they did not know that the   
   > dinos had hooves until they found the mummies.   
      
   Not true. What makes you think that?   
      
   > They had been assuming   
   > claws for centuries.  How do you know that the mammalian taxa had claws   
   > instead of hooves?  Even the ancient dino footprints did not   
   > differentiate claws from hooves.   
      
   I think you're confusing some different taxa of dinosaurs here.   
      
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