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Miocene to the present, the
dominant carnivorous mammals have been
carnivoramorphs. Most
carnivorous mammals, from dogs to deltatheridiums,
share several...
- the stem-clade Carnivoramorpha. The
miacoids were small, genet-like
carnivoramorphs that
occupy a
variety of
niches such as
terrestrial and
arboreal habitats...
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Chailicyon is an
extinct genus in the
basal Carnivoramorph family Miacidae that
lived in Asia
during the
Middle to Late Eocene.
Chailicyon was
named by...
- crown-clade Carnivoramorpha, and the
Miacoidea are
regarded as
basal carnivoramorphs. Some
species of the
genus Miacis are
closely related to the order...
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placed in this group.
Mesonychians are
placed as the
sister group to
carnivoramorphs,
while arctocyonids are
polyphyletic with
Arctocyon and Loxolophus...
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Valid Solé,
Gheerbrant &
Godinot Early Eocene France A "miacid"
carnivoramorph, a
species of V****acyon.
Walshius Gen. et sp. nov
Valid Tomiya Eocene...
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competed with the
mesonychians as the
dominant hunters in Laurasia; the
carnivoramorphs and the
other group of “creodonts”, the hyaenodonts,
remained relatively...
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North America,
namely mesonychians, hyaenodonts, oxyaenids, and
carnivoramorphs,
dispersing between the continents.
Several other prominent mammal...
