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fourteen genera.
Oxyaenids were the
first to
appear during the late
Paleocene in
North America,
while smaller radiations of
oxyaenids in
Europe and Asia...
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polyphyletic ****emblage of two
different groups, the
oxyaenids and the hyaenodonts, not a
natural group.
Oxyaenids are
first known from the
Palaeocene of North...
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faunivorous niche. However,
following the
extinction of
mesonychians and the
oxyaenid creodonts at the end of the Eocene,
carnivorans quickly moved into this...
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probably an
ambush predator, not a fast runner. Granger, W. (1938.) "A
giant oxyaenid from the
upper Eocene of Mongolia."
American Museum Novitates 969. Y. Tong...
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different families of Feliformia, such as
Barbourofelidae and Nimravidae; the
oxyaenid "creodont"
genera Machaeroides and Apataelurus; and two
extinct lineages...
- early-to-mid-Cenozoic, the
dominant predator forms were mammals: hyaenodonts,
oxyaenids, entelodonts, ptolemaiidans,
arctocyonids and mesonychians, representing...
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Tytthaena is the
smallest oxyaenid known. Morphologically, it
resembles Oxyaena. It can be
distinguished from
other oxyaenids by its size and dentition...
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artiodactyl Andrewsarchus –
formerly considered a mesonychid, the
oxyaenid Sarkastodon, and the
carnivorans Amphicyon and Arctodus) all
reached a...
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Hyaenodonts were
considerably more
widespread and
successful than the
oxyaenids, the
other clade of
mammals originally classified along with the hyaenodonts...
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Mount of
oxyaenid Patriofelis from the
American Museum of
Natural History...
