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noun Any of various extinct carnivorous mammals of the suborder Creodonta, of the Paleocene Epoch to the Pliocene Epoch.

The creodont belonged in the Eocene epoch, because the creodont was fitted for life in the Eocene epoch. — 119 - The Time Terror
The type of pterodactyl here is the tailless type, as differing from the tail type of the Lower Lias era, which existed many thousands of years earlier The fact that such prehistoric forms of life as the creodont and the mammoth were not on earth, alive, at the same time is a fact often overlooked by the casual reader of fact material about prehistoric eras. — 119 - The Time Terror
According to the Wikipedia caption, the illustration shows the creodont — Cryptomundo
he said thoughtfully If the bestial creodont which would have destroyed them except for the tobacco Doc threw in its eyes--if that animal was a mixture of many animals, so was this rock a mixture of many ores. — 002 - The Land of Terror
The well-known plantigrade tread of bears is a primitive characteristic which has survived from their creodont ancestry. — The Elements of Geology