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Mesonychia ("middle claws") is an
extinct taxon of small- to large-sized
carnivorous ungulates related to artiodactyls.
Mesonychians first appeared in...
- re****igned to its own
family Andrewsarchidae, but
retained within the
order Mesonychia.
After that,
Paratriisodon was
synonymized with
Andrewsarchus and the...
- artiodactyls,
close relatives rather than
direct ancestors.
Other studies define Mesonychia as
basal to all ungulates,
occupying a
position between Perissodactyla...
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Mesonychia † Cetacea...
- Polydolopimorphia, and the Dinocerata.
Large carnivores include the wolf-like
Mesonychia, such as
Ankalagon and Sinonyx.
Though there was an
explosive diversification...
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likely originated in Asia. It was the last
surviving representative of
Mesonychia and
became extinct in the
early Oligocene.
Mongolestes is
distinct from...
- †Notoungulata Order:
Perissodactyla Clade:
Paraxonia Order: †Arctocyonia? Order: †
Mesonychia? Family: †Periptychidae? Order:
Artiodactyla (including Cetacea) Synonyms...
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Lucas & T.E.
Williamson (2000). "A new
specimen of
Ankalagon (Mammalia,
Mesonychia) and
evidence of ****ual
dimorphism in mesonychians".
Journal of Vertebrate...
- perissodactyls,
though in
recent studies this
clade was
found to be polyphyletic)
Mesonychia (natural clade,
though several members, such as
genus Andrewsarchus, are...
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Eukaryota Kingdom:
Animalia Phylum:
Chordata class:
Mammalia Order: †
Mesonychia Family: †Mesonychidae Genus: †Mesonyx Cope, 1872
Species Mesonyx lanius...
