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- noun Plural form of
creodont .
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Back then, the area was a warm, lush forest very unlike most of present-day Saudi Arabia, and was populated by extinct mammals known as creodonts, carnivores generally more heavily built than living cats and canines that possessed large fangs capable of inflicting the damage seen in the new fossil skull.
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Saudi Arabia, and was populated by extinct mammals known as creodonts, carnivores generally more heavily built than living cats and canines that possessed large fangs capable of inflicting the damage seen in the new fossil skull.
Livescience.com 2010
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Back then, the area was a warm, lush forest very unlike most of present-day Saudi Arabia, and was populated by extinct mammals known as creodonts, carnivores generally more heavily built than living cats and canines that possessed large fangs capable of inflicting the damage seen in the new fossil skull.
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Saudi Arabia, and was populated by extinct mammals known as creodonts, carnivores generally more heavily built than living cats and canines that possessed large fangs capable of inflicting the damage seen in the new fossil skull.
Livescience.com 2010
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In addition, Indohyus, carnivores (dogs and cats), and an archaic group of meat-eating mammals called creodonts were included. he team found that the least complex evolutionary tree places Indohyus and similar fossils close to whales, while mesonychids are more distantly related.
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The ancestral lines of the families of the flesh eaters -- such as the cats (lions, tigers, etc.), the bears, the hyenas, and the dogs (including wolves and foxes) -- converge in the creodonts of the early Eocene, -- an order so generalized that it had affinities not only with the carnivores but also with the insect eaters, the marsupials, and the hoofed mammals as well.
The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900
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The carnivorous mammals of the sea -- whales, seals, walruses, etc. -- seem to have been derived from some of the creodonts of the early Tertiary by adaptation to aquatic life.
The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900
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The dog family diverged from the creodonts late in the Eocene, and divided into two branches, one of which evolved the wolves and the other the foxes.
The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900
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Triassic theromorphs, and the Tertiary creodonts as compared with existing carnivora.
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