- closed-canopy
forests with many
niches left
vacant by the K-T extinction.
Arctocyonids were
early defined as a
family of
creodonts (early predators), then re****igned...
- when
Frederick Szalay suggested that they
either evolved from the same
arctocyonid ancestors or that they were an
example of
convergent evolution. Paratriisodon...
-
fused along the
length of the forelimb;
early ungulates, such as the
arctocyonids, did not
share this
unique skeletal structure. The
fusion of the radius...
-
archaic ungulates Claenodon, large,
arctocyonid condylarth Ectocion,
phenacodontid condylarth Lambertocyon,
arctocyonid condylarth Phenacodus, phenacodontid...
-
members of Ferungulata,
including hyaenodonts, oxyaenids, mesonychids,
arctocyonids and the stem-relatives of
perissodactyls (like Cambaytherium). This synapomorphy...
- Bast, Eric; Smith,
Thierry (2012-10-31). "Re****essment of the
small '
arctocyonid'
Prolatidens waudruae from the
Early Paleocene of Belgium, and its phylogenetic...
-
forms were mammals: hyaenodonts, oxyaenids, entelodonts, ptolemaiidans,
arctocyonids and mesonychians,
representing a
great diversity of
eutherian carnivores...
- of ungulates,
which feature had led to
previously suggested ties to
arctocyonid "condylarths", but this
similarity is now
considered primitive. The pantodonts...
-
Mentoclaenodon is an
extinct genus of
arctocyonid ungulate mammals.
Mentoclaenodon had
large upper canines comparable to the "saber-teeth" of various...
-
basal Artiodactyla or Ferae.
Arctocyon includes some of the
largest arctocyonids ever to have lived, and was
certainly a
specialized member of the group...
