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Arctocyonidae (from Gr****
arktos and kyôn, "bear/dog-like") is as an
extinct family of unspecialized,
primitive mammals with more than 20 genera. Animals...
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genus has been
historically placed in the
families Mesonychidae or
Arctocyonidae, or was
considered to be a
close relative of whales. It is now regarded...
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members of Ferae.
There are
three families classified in the order:
Arctocyonidae, Oxyclaenidae, and Quettacyonidae. McKenna, M. C. (1975). "Toward a...
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difficult time
reducing meat. Likewise,
neither members of
Oxyclaenidae nor
Arctocyonidae had carn****ial teeth. On the
other hand,
carnivorous marsupials have...
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artiodactyls were
thought to have
evolved from a
small group of condylarths,
Arctocyonidae,
which were unspecialized,
superficially raccoon-like to bear-like omnivores...
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found in Germany.
Arctocyon is the
eponymous genus of the
family Arctocyonidae, a
group of
archaic mammals with
uncertain affinities, once classified...
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adaptations for
greater bite force. Like the
Paleocene family Arctocyonidae,
mesonychids were once
viewed as
primitive carnivorans, and the diet...
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expanded the term to
include families Miacidae (including Viverravidae),
Arctocyonidae,
Leptictidae (now Pseudorhyncocyonidae), Oxyaenidae,
Ambloctonidae and...
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members of
orders Mesonychia,
Pantodonta and Taeniodonta, and
families Arctocyonidae, Didelphodontidae, Nyctitheriidae, Palaeoryctidae,
Periptychidae and...
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placement of Protungulatum. This
genus was
initially ****igned to the
family Arctocyonidae, in
order Condylarthra, (a
group of
archaic "ungulates", that is now...
