- as some
modern carnivores can.
Creodonts had to
depend entirely on
their jaws to
capture prey,
which may be why
creodonts generally had a
larger head size...
-
later the
creodonts were
occupying the
megafaunal faunivorous niche. However,
following the
extinction of
mesonychians and the
oxyaenid creodonts at the...
- they
occur in all
major Paleocene faunas.
Since other predators, such as
creodonts and Carnivora, were
either rare or
absent in
these animal communities...
- 2009. What, if not nothing, is a
creodont?
Phylogeny and
classification of
Hyaenodontida and
other former creodonts.
Journal of
Vertebrate Paleontology...
- of
morphological characters of
Paleocene placentals found instead that
creodonts might be the
sister group to
Pholidotamorpha (pangolins and
their stem-relatives)...
- Ice Sheet. Choristoderes, the last non-crocodilian
crocodylomorphs and
creodonts go extinct.
After separating from
gorilla ancestors,
chimpanzee and human...
- (2009). "What, if not nothing, is a
creodont?
Phylogeny and
classification of
Hyaenodontida and
other former creodonts."
Journal of
Vertebrate Paleontology...
-
climate changed and
fierce competition arose from the
better adapted creodonts.
Ungulates were in high
diversity in
response to ****ual
selection and...
- once
predominated were extinct.
Archaic mammals filled the
world such as
creodonts (extinct carnivores,
unrelated to
existing Carnivora). The
Eocene Epoch...
- by the K-T extinction.
Arctocyonids were
early defined as a
family of
creodonts (early predators), then re****igned to the
condylarths (primitive plant-eaters...
