-
surviving into the
Early Oligocene epoch.
Mesonychids probably originated in Asia,
where the most
primitive mesonychid, Yantanglestes, is
known from the early...
- the
largest mesonychid known from the
Paleocene of
North America, and it
provides the best
evidence for ****ual
dimorphism in
mesonychids. The generic...
- from
which the
hyaenodontine Propterodon, the
mesonychid Harpagolestes, at
least three unnamed mesonychids, the
artiodactyl Erlianhyus, the perissodactyls...
- to be a
mesonychid. However,
studies from
molecular biology placed today's
cetaceans within the
group of artiodactyls, to
which the
mesonychids do not...
- 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...
- many
extinct members of Ferungulata,
including hyaenodonts, oxyaenids,
mesonychids,
arctocyonids and the stem-relatives of
perissodactyls (like Cambaytherium)...
-
became extinct in the
early Oligocene.
Mongolestes is
distinct from
other mesonychids in
several dental features,
including very
large teeth and the loss of...
-
group that
includes "Pseudocreodi" (oxyaenids and hyaenodontids) and the
mesonychids, "Adaptive Creodonta" (Creodonta adaptiva), made up of the
miacids and...
- "thick hyena") was a
genus of
heavily built,
relatively short-legged
mesonychids,
early Cenozoic mammals that
evolved before the
origin of
either modern...
-
larger and better-known
mesonychids by
having teeth specialized for
cutting (presumably meat),
while the
teeth of
other mesonychids, such as
Mesonyx or Sinonyx...
