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Hyaenodontidae ("hyena teeth") is a
family of
placental mammals in the
extinct superfamily Hyaenodontoidea.
Hyaenodontids arose during the
early Eocene...
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Hyaenodonts were
important mammalian predators that
arose during the
early Paleocene in
Europe and
persisted well into the late Miocene.
Hyaenodonts are...
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Simbakubwa ("great lion") is an
extinct genus of
hyaenodonts to the
family Hyainailourinae that
lived in
Kenya during the
Early Miocene. The
fossils of...
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oxyaenids and the
hyaenodonts, not a
natural group.
Oxyaenids are
first known from the
Palaeocene of
North America,
while hyaenodonts hail from the Palaeocene...
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Indohyus Thylacine Felidae Hyenas Mongooses Canidae Derived hyaenodonts (range from
digitigrade to semidigitigrade:
ancestrally plantigrade)...
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Savage in 1973,
Megistotherium is one of the
largest known hyaenodonts. Like the
other hyaenodonts, it had an
enormous skull relative to its body; up to 66...
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Kerberos ("Cerberus") is an
extinct genus of
hyainailourid hyaenodonts in the
subfamily Hyainailourinae, that
lived in Europe. It
contains the single...
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Dissopsalis ("double scissors") is a
genus of
teratodontine hyaenodonts of the
tribe Dissopsalini. The
older species, D. pyroclasticus,
lived in Kenya...
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feature is
found also in many
extinct members of Ferungulata,
including hyaenodonts, oxyaenids, mesonychids,
arctocyonids and the stem-relatives of perissodactyls...
- the early-to-mid-Cenozoic, the
dominant predator forms were mammals:
hyaenodonts, oxyaenids, entelodonts, ptolemaiidans,
arctocyonids and mesonychians...
