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Hyaenodonts were
important mammalian predators that
arose during the
early Paleocene in
Europe and
persisted well into the late Miocene.
Hyaenodonts are...
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Hyaenodontidae ("hyena teeth") is an
extinct family of
placental mammals from
extinct superfamily Hyaenodontoidea within extinct order Hyaenodonta. Hyaenodontids...
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Oxyaenids are
first known from the
Palaeocene of
North America,
while hyaenodonts hail from the
Palaeocene of Africa.
Creodonts were the
dominant carnivorous...
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Simbakubwa ("great lion") is an
extinct genus of
hyaenodonts to the
family Hyainailourinae that
lived in
Kenya during the
early Miocene. The
fossils of...
- the early-to-mid-Cenozoic, the
dominant predator forms were mammals:
hyaenodonts, oxyaenids, entelodonts, ptolemaiidans,
arctocyonids and mesonychians...
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Indohyus Thylacine Felidae Hyenas Mongooses Canidae Derived hyaenodonts (range from
digitigrade to semidigitigrade:
ancestrally plantigrade)...
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Savage in 1973,
Megistotherium is one of the
largest known hyaenodonts. Like the
other hyaenodonts, it had an
enormous skull relative to its body; up to 66...
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horns to
defend themselves and
their calves from predators, such as
hyaenodonts, entelodonts,
Bathornis or nimravids.
Fossils were
uncovered in the northern...
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Kerberos ("Cerberus") is an
extinct genus of
hyainailourid hyaenodonts in the
subfamily Hyainailourinae, that
lived in Europe. It
contains the single...
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across Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Closely related to
other large African hyaenodonts such as
Simbakubwa and Megistotherium,
Hyainailouros walked with a semi-digitigrade...
