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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A family of fossil carnivorous quadrupeds, having 44 teeth, the last upper premolar trituberculate, and all the molars tuberculate, containing the genus Arctocyon and its allies, placed by Cope in a suborder Creodonta (which see).

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