Definition of Mesonychids. Meaning of Mesonychids. Synonyms of Mesonychids

- surviving into the Early Oligocene epoch. Mesonychids probably originated in Asia, where the most primitive mesonychid, Yantanglestes, is known from the early...
- body size was probably overestimated due to inaccurate comparisons with mesonychids. Its incisors are arranged in a semicircle, similar to entelodonts, with...
- to 55 kg (about 45-120 lbs). Like other mesonychids, the toes ended in small hooves. Like other mesonychids, they had large heads and long necks in proportion...
- larger and better-known mesonychids by having teeth specialized for cutting (presumably meat), while the teeth of other mesonychids, such as Mesonyx or Sinonyx...
- became extinct in the early Oligocene. Mongolestes is distinct from other mesonychids in several dental features, including very large teeth and the loss of...
- the largest mesonychid known from the Paleocene of North America, and it provides the best evidence for ****ual dimorphism in mesonychids. The generic...
- to be a mesonychid. However, studies from molecular biology placed today's cetaceans within the group of artiodactyls, to which the mesonychids do not...
- "thick hyena") was a genus of heavily built, relatively short-legged mesonychids, early Cenozoic mammals that evolved before the origin of either modern...
- suggested that Harpagolestes is a wastebasket genus for fragmentary Eocene mesonychids. Harpagolestes was a large animal, with a skull length of a half a meter...
- comparatively simpler teeth, the triisodontids are regarded as basal mesonychids. A recent study found them to be a paraphyletic ****emblage of stem-mesonychians...