- flat
mandibular fossa suggest that
Andrewsarchus likely had a
fairly weak bite force. The
holotype of
Andrewsarchus mongoliensis is a
mostly complete cranium...
- "stem-whippomorphs")
include such taxa as the
family Entelodontidae and the
genus Andrewsarchus. "A 'consensus cladogram' for artiodactyls".
Archived from the original...
- to
generate the
proposal that
Andrewsarchus was the
largest predatory land
mammal that ever lived.
Since Andrewsarchus is
known only from a
single isolated...
- polyphyletic)
Mesonychia (natural clade,
though several members, such as
genus Andrewsarchus, are now
thought to
belong in
other groups) Superorder: Laurasiatheria...
- the
deletion of
Andrewsarchus,
which has
often been
included within the mesonychians. One
possible conclusion is that
Andrewsarchus has been incorrectly...
- which, by that time, had
become almost fully aquatic.
Mammals like
Andrewsarchus were at the top of the food-chain. The Late
Eocene saw the
rebirth of...
- ecosystems.
Moeritherium Hyracotherium Palaeotherium Megacerops Basilosaurus Andrewsarchus Borealosuchus Gastornis ****cetus
Hyracodon Eocene turtle fossil Leptictidium...
- on
whether the
giant enigmatic mammal Andrewsarchus is included, and it has been
suggested that
Andrewsarchus is in fact an
entelodont or
close relative...
-
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Artistic reconstruction of Sarkastodon,
shown waiting for
Andrewsarchus to
finish eating from a dead brontothere....
-
savanna began to
predominate much of the landscape, and
mammals such as
Andrewsarchus rose up to
become the
largest known terrestrial predatory mammal ever...
