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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A family of fossil carnivorous mammals, of the Eocene age, belonging to the suborder Creodonta, typified by the genus Ambloctonus, having the last upper molar longitudinal, the lower molars with little-developed inner tubercle, and the last of these carnassial.

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