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Pachyaena (literally, "thick hyena") was a
genus of
heavily built,
relatively short-legged mesonychids,
early Cenozoic mammals that
evolved before the...
- Mexico, were far larger,
growing to the size of a bear. A
later genus,
Pachyaena,
entered North America by the
earliest Eocene,
where it
evolved into species...
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Throughout the
Paleocene and Eocene,
several genera,
including Dissacus,
Pachyaena and
Mesonyx would radiate out from
their ancestral home in Asia and into...
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similar to
those of some land-living or semi-aquatic mammals, such as
Pachyaena and otters. Kutchicetus'
limbs and
sacrum were
probably weight-bearing...
- running. Like
running members of the even-toed ungulates,
mesonychians (
Pachyaena, for example)
walked on
their digits (digitigrade locomotion). Mesonychians...
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Ankalagon in size were the
larger species of the
Early Eocene genus,
Pachyaena, such as P.
gigantea and P. ossifraga, which, too, grew to the size of...
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Hukoutherium Jiangxia Lohoodon Mesonyx Metahapalodectes Mongolestes Mongolonyx Pachyaena Sinonyx Synoplotherium Yantanglestes Hapalodectidae Hapalodectes Hapalorestes...
- †Harpagolestes
orientalis â€
Pachyaena...
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Hukoutherium Jiangxia Lohoodon Mesonyx Metahapalodectes Mongolestes Mongolonyx Pachyaena Sinonyx Synoplotherium Yantanglestes Hapalodectidae Hapalodectes Hapalorestes...
- time
suggests it may have been
unable to
expand into
areas occupied by
Pachyaena,
which may mean it
filled a
similar ecological role. However,
fossil records...
