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- small- to large-sized carnivorous ungulates related to artiodactyls. Mesonychians first appeared in the early Paleocene, went into a sharp decline at the...
- extinct entelodonts are omnivorous, while cetaceans and the extinct mesonychians are carnivorous. Ungulate is from the Late Latin adjective ungulatus...
- like the mesonychians and later the creodonts were occupying the megafaunal faunivorous niche. However, following the extinction of mesonychians and the...
- is an extinct, probably paraphyletic, or possibly invalid family of mesonychian placental mammals. Most triisodontid genera lived during the Paleocene...
- ("hooked thief") is an extinct genus of hyena like, bear sized mesonychid mesonychian that lived in Central and Eastern Asia and western and central North...
- hyaenodonts, oxyaenids, entelodonts, ptolemaiidans, arctocyonids and mesonychians, representing a great diversity of eutherian carnivores in the northern...
- Mesonyx ("middle claw") is a genus of extinct mesonychid mesonychian mammal. Fossils of the various species are found in Early to Late Eocene-age strata...
- be unique to even-toed ungulates, were also in early cetaceans. The mesonychians, another type of ungulate, did not show this special construction of...
- Mesonychians reported from the Ergilin Dzo Formation Genus Species Presence Stratigraphic member Material Notes Images Metahapalodectes M. sp. A hapalodectid...
- terrestrial) ****cetus and the Paleocene mesonychians (as there was a hypothesised link between cetaceans and mesonychians). The limbs of more aquatic Eocene...