Ferae

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I have no doubt it is known to most of my readers that Australia is destitute of 'Ferae' proper, and that elephants, lions, tigers, etc., are unknown.

Australian Search Party Charles Henry Eden 1858
They name this clade Pegasoferae, a name derived by uniting Pegasus (in their view a sort of bat-perissodactyl combination) with Ferae (the name they use for the carnivoran + pangolin clade).

Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006
They name this clade Pegasoferae, a name derived by uniting Pegasus (in their view a sort of bat-perissodactyl combination) with Ferae (the name they use for the carnivoran + pangolin clade).

We flightless primates Darren Naish 2006
The _Ferae_ have generally six front teeth, of a somewhat conical shape, both in the upper and under jaw: next to these, are strong and sharp canine teeth; and the grinders are formed into conical, or pointed processes.

Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side Frances Bowyer Vaux
Varise Principiorum figurae afguuntur ex eo, qubd omnia naturalia ex ii$ contexta, Homines, Ferae, Aves, Pi - lces, &c. diverfunodd figurentur.

T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex Creech, Thomas, 1659-1700. ed 1770