- to an
order of
their own, the Arctocyonia. Some have
suggested that
arctocyonids are
ancestral to modern-day artiodactyls, or that they form a sister...
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closely related to
Loxolophus (another
arctocyonid) and to pantodonts.
Arctocyon was
among the
largest arctocyonids, if not the largest. A.
primaevus measured...
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forms were mammals: hyaenodonts, oxyaenids, entelodonts, ptolemaiidans,
arctocyonids and mesonychians,
representing a
great diversity of
eutherian carnivores...
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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...
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members of Ferungulata,
including hyaenodonts, oxyaenids, mesonychids,
arctocyonids and the stem-relatives of
perissodactyls (like Cambaytherium). This synapomorphy...
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titanotheres are
preserved from this time.
Later inhabitants would include arctocyonids, insectivores, multituberculates, pantodonts, primates, and taeniodonts...
- when
Frederick Szalay suggested that they
either evolved from the same
arctocyonid ancestors or that they were an
example of
convergent evolution. Paratriisodon...
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Mesonychians are
proposed to be a
sister group to carnivoramorphs,
while arctocyonids were polyphyletic, with
genera Arctocyon and
Loxolophus as a
sister taxa...
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other arctocyonids.
Anacodon may have been
trending away from
carnivory and
towards a more
herbivorous diet.
Anacodon is
unusually robust by
arctocyonid standards...
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relatively large compared to
similarly sized contemporary mammals,
namely the
arctocyonids. The
dental formula is
usually 2.1.3.31.1.3.3, with two incisors, one...
