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fourteen genera.
Oxyaenids were the
first to
appear during the late
Paleocene in
North America,
while smaller radiations of
oxyaenids in
Europe and Asia...
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polyphyletic ****emblage of two
different groups, the
oxyaenids and the hyaenodonts, not a
natural group.
Oxyaenids are
first known from the
Palaeocene of North...
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different families of Feliformia, such as
Barbourofelidae and Nimravidae; the
oxyaenid "creodont"
genera Machaeroides and Apataelurus; and two
extinct lineages...
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faunivorous niche. However,
following the
extinction of
mesonychians and the
oxyaenid creodonts at the end of the Eocene,
carnivorans quickly moved into this...
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probably an
ambush predator, not a fast runner. Granger, W. (1938.) "A
giant oxyaenid from the
upper Eocene of Mongolia."
American Museum Novitates 969. Y. Tong...
- early-to-mid-Cenozoic, the
dominant predator forms were mammals: hyaenodonts,
oxyaenids, entelodonts, ptolemaiidans,
arctocyonids and mesonychians, representing...
- (the
artiodactyl Andrewsarchus –
formerly considered a mesonychid, the
oxyaenid Sarkastodon, and the
carnivorans Amphicyon and Arctodus) all
reached a...
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Comparison of carn****ial
teeth of wolf and
typical hyaenodontid and
oxyaenid...
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Hyaenodonts were
considerably more
widespread and
successful than the
oxyaenids, the
other clade of
mammals originally classified along with the hyaenodonts...
- 100 lb) and had a
skull of 66.4 cm (26.1 in) in length. The
largest known oxyaenid was
Sarkastodon weighing in at 800 kg (1,800 lb). Some
mesonychians reached...
