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- basal to order Carnivora, the crown-group within the Carnivoramorpha. Miacoids were mostly small carnivorous mammals, superficially reminiscent of martens...
- and their stem-relatives. The closest stem-carnivorans are the miacoids. The miacoids include the families Viverravidae and Miacidae, and together the...
- evolution and dispersal of modern types of flowering plants. Cimolestans, miacoids and condylarths go extinct. First neocetes (modern, fully aquatic whales)...
- mammals. In the Middle Palaeocene (60 million years ago), Miacoidea appears. Miacoids were a group of paraphyletic taxa believed to be basal to Carnivora. They...
- der Hammen cycles. All modern carnivorans, including cats, evolved from miacoids, which existed from approximately 66 to 33 million years ago. There were...
- on average, larger than most of the Paleocene and Eocene creodonts and miacoid carnivorans. The order is sometimes referred to by its older name Acreodi...
- (1997). "Postcranial morphology and locomotor behaviour of two early Eocene miacoid carnivorans, Vulpavus and Didymictis" (PDF). Palaeontology. 40: 279–306...