- small- to large-sized
carnivorous ungulates related to artiodactyls.
Mesonychians first appeared in the
early Paleocene, went into a
sharp decline at the...
-
extinct entelodonts are omnivorous,
while cetaceans and the
extinct mesonychians are carnivorous.
Ungulate is from the Late
Latin adjective ungulatus...
- like the
mesonychians and
later the
creodonts were
occupying the
megafaunal faunivorous niche. However,
following the
extinction of
mesonychians and the...
- hyaenodonts, oxyaenids, entelodonts, ptolemaiidans,
arctocyonids and
mesonychians,
representing a
great diversity of
eutherian carnivores in the northern...
- "Phylogenetic and
Morphometric Re****essment of the
Dental Evidence for a
Mesonychian and
Cetacean Clade". In Thewissen, J.G.M. (ed.). The
Emergence of Whales...
- is an extinct,
probably paraphyletic, or
possibly invalid family of
mesonychian placental mammals. Most
triisodontid genera lived during the Paleocene...
- terrestrial) ****cetus and the
Paleocene mesonychians (as
there was a
hypothesised link
between cetaceans and
mesonychians). The
limbs of more
aquatic Eocene...
- Otodus, and a
handful of
primitive large mammal groups like uintatheres,
mesonychians, and pantodonts. But as the
forests began to
recede and the
climate began...
-
Mesonyx ("middle claw") is a
genus of
extinct mesonychid mesonychian mammal.
Fossils of the
various species are
found in
Early to Late Eocene-age strata...
- be
unique to even-toed ungulates, were also in
early cetaceans. The
mesonychians,
another type of ungulate, did not show this
special construction of...
