Mesonychidae (meaning "middle claws") is an extinct family of small to large-sized omnivorous-carnivorous mammals. They were endemic to North America and...
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Fairfield Osborn in 1924. It has been historically placed in the families Mesonychidae or Arctocyonidae, or as a close relative of whales. It is now regarded...
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either directly (as in birds) or via paw-pads (as in dogs and cats). Mesonychidae Dinosaurs (digitigrade and semi-digitigrade) Birds (except for loons...
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have now been removed from that order and placed in three families (Mesonychidae, Hapalodectidae, and Triisodontidae), either within their own order,...
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extinct carnivorous jackal to coyote-sized mammals within the family Mesonychidae, an early group of hoofed mammals that evolved into hunters and omnivores...
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Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: †Mesonychia Family: †Mesonychidae Genus: †Mesonyx Cope, 1872 Species Mesonyx lanius Mesonyx nuhetingensis...
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Ankalagon saurognathus is an extinct carnivorous mammal of the family Mesonychidae, endemic to North America during the Paleocene epoch (63.3—60.2 mya)...
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Paleocene of China (about 56 million years ago). It is within the family Mesonychidae, and cladistic analysis of a skull of Sinonyx jiashanensis identifies...
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Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: †Mesonychia Family: †Mesonychidae Genus: †Yantanglestes Ideker and Yan, 1980 Type species †Lestes conexus...
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(2002). "Early Eocene Leptictida, Pantolesta, Creodonta, Carnivora, and Mesonychidae (Mammalia) from the Eureka Sound Group, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut". Canadian...
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