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dominant predator forms were mammals: hyaenodonts, oxyaenids, entelodonts,
ptolemaiidans,
arctocyonids and mesonychians,
representing a
great diversity of eutherian...
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metacone and
absence of
parastyles on M1–2.
Additional features uniting ptolemaiidans and
tubulidentates specifically include hypsodont molars that wear down...
- the
aardvark appeared in
Africa around the end of the Paleocene. The
ptolemaiidans, a
mysterious clade of
mammals with
uncertain affinities, may actually...
- has been much
confusion about the
origins and even
identities of the
ptolemaiidans. The
first specimen, a set of
isolated molar teeth, of the type species...
- Troschel, 1856
Snail Cleopatra VII
Cleopatrodon † Bown & Simons, 1987
Ptolemaiidan (an
extinct order of mammals)
Cleopatra VII
Closterocerus saintpierrei...
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Ptolemaia is a
genus of
extinct Afrotherian mammals from the
Oligocene of East Africa. The
genus and type species, P. lyonsi, was
described by
Henry Fairfield...
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Qarunavus is an
extinct genus of
mammals in the
order Ptolemaiida. A
single species,
Qarunavus meyeri is
known from the
Lower Oligocene Jebel Qatrani Formation...
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Cleopatrodon is an
extinct genus of
mammals in the
order Ptolemaiida. Two
species are
known from the
Lower Oligocene Jebel Qatrani Formation of modern-day...
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Kelba quadeemae is an
extinct species of
ptolemaiidan mammal, the sole
species of the
family Kelbidae,
known from the
Lower Miocene of East Africa. The...
