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Arctocyonidae, the Glossary

Index Arctocyonidae

Arctocyonidae (from Greek arktos and kyôn, "bear/dog-like") is as an extinct family of unspecialized, primitive mammals with more than 20 genera.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 30 relations: Arctocyon, Arctocyonidae, Arctus (centaur), Artiodactyl, Big cat, Canine tooth, Cernay-lès-Reims, Chriacus, Condylarthra, Creodonta, Cretaceous, Eocene, Eoconodon, Family (biology), Genus, Goniacodon, Late Cretaceous, Mammal, Mentoclaenodon, Mesonychia, Mesonychidae, Paleocene, Plantigrade, Protungulatum, Raccoon, Sagittal crest, Skull, Triisodontidae, Ungulate, Wastebasket taxon.

  2. Arctocyonia
  3. Condylarths
  4. Late Cretaceous first appearances

Arctocyon

Arctocyon ('bear dog') is an extinct genus of ungulate mammals. Arctocyonidae and Arctocyon are arctocyonia and Condylarths.

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Arctocyonidae

Arctocyonidae (from Greek arktos and kyôn, "bear/dog-like") is as an extinct family of unspecialized, primitive mammals with more than 20 genera. Arctocyonidae and Arctocyonidae are arctocyonia, Condylarths, Eocene extinctions, Eocene mammals, late Cretaceous first appearances, Paleocene mammals and Prehistoric mammal families.

See Arctocyonidae and Arctocyonidae

Arctus (centaur)

In Greek mythology, Arctus (Arktos) was a centaur who fought against the Lapith spearmen.

See Arctocyonidae and Arctus (centaur)

Artiodactyl

Artiodactyls are placental mammals belonging to the order Artiodactyla. Typically, they are ungulates which bear weight equally on two (an even number) of their five toes (the third and fourth, often in the form of a hoof).

See Arctocyonidae and Artiodactyl

Big cat

The term "big cat" is typically used to refer to any of the five living members of the genus Panthera, namely the tiger, lion, jaguar, leopard, and snow leopard, as well as the non-pantherine cheetah and cougar.

See Arctocyonidae and Big cat

Canine tooth

In mammalian oral anatomy, the canine teeth, also called cuspids, dogteeth, eye teeth, vampire teeth, or vampire fangs, are the relatively long, pointed teeth.

See Arctocyonidae and Canine tooth

Cernay-lès-Reims

Cernay-lès-Reims (literally Cernay near Reims) is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France.

See Arctocyonidae and Cernay-lès-Reims

Chriacus

Chriacus is an extinct genus of placental mammals that lived in what is now North America during the Paleocene epoch and died out after the early Eocene. Arctocyonidae and Chriacus are Condylarths.

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Condylarthra

Condylarthra is an informal group – previously considered an order – of extinct placental mammals, known primarily from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs. Arctocyonidae and Condylarthra are Condylarths.

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Creodonta

Creodonta ("meat teeth") is a former order of extinct carnivorous placental mammals that lived from the early Paleocene to the late Miocene epochs in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).

See Arctocyonidae and Cretaceous

Eocene

The Eocene is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma).

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Eoconodon

Eoconodon is an extinct genus of triisodontid mesonychian that existed during the early Paleocene of North America.

See Arctocyonidae and Eoconodon

Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

See Arctocyonidae and Family (biology)

Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Goniacodon

Goniacodon is an extinct genus from the Paleocene of North America.

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Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale.

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Mammal

A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.

See Arctocyonidae and Mammal

Mentoclaenodon

Mentoclaenodon is an extinct genus of arctocyonid ungulate mammals. Arctocyonidae and Mentoclaenodon are arctocyonia, Condylarths and Paleocene mammals.

See Arctocyonidae and Mentoclaenodon

Mesonychia

Mesonychia ("middle claws") is an extinct taxon of small- to large-sized carnivorous ungulates related to artiodactyls.

See Arctocyonidae and Mesonychia

Mesonychidae

Mesonychidae (meaning "middle claws") is an extinct family of small to large-sized omnivorous-carnivorous mammals. Arctocyonidae and Mesonychidae are Prehistoric mammal families.

See Arctocyonidae and Mesonychidae

Paleocene

The Paleocene, or Palaeocene, is a geological epoch that lasted from about 66 to 56 million years ago (mya).

See Arctocyonidae and Paleocene

Plantigrade

Portion of a human skeleton, showing plantigrade habit In terrestrial animals, plantigrade locomotion means walking with the toes and metatarsals flat on the ground.

See Arctocyonidae and Plantigrade

Protungulatum

Protungulatum ('first ungulate') is an extinct genus of eutherian mammals within extinct family Protungulatidae, and is possibly one of the earliest known placental mammals in the fossil record, that lived in North America from the Late Cretaceous to early Paleocene. Arctocyonidae and Protungulatum are Paleocene mammals.

See Arctocyonidae and Protungulatum

Raccoon

The raccoon (or, Procyon lotor), also spelled racoon and sometimes called the common raccoon or northern raccoon to distinguish it from the other species, is a mammal native to North America.

See Arctocyonidae and Raccoon

Sagittal crest

A sagittal crest is a ridge of bone running lengthwise along the midline of the top of the skull (at the sagittal suture) of many mammalian and reptilian skulls, among others.

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Skull

The skull is a bone protective cavity for the brain.

See Arctocyonidae and Skull

Triisodontidae

Triisodontidae is an extinct, probably paraphyletic, or possibly invalid family of mesonychian placental mammals. Arctocyonidae and Triisodontidae are Eocene extinctions and Prehistoric mammal families.

See Arctocyonidae and Triisodontidae

Ungulate

Ungulates are members of the diverse clade Euungulata ("true ungulates"), which primarily consists of large mammals with hooves.

See Arctocyonidae and Ungulate

Wastebasket taxon

Wastebasket taxon (also called a wastebin taxon, dustbin taxon or catch-all taxon) is a term used by some taxonomists to refer to a taxon that has the purpose of classifying organisms that do not fit anywhere else.

See Arctocyonidae and Wastebasket taxon

See also

Arctocyonia

Condylarths

Late Cretaceous first appearances

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctocyonidae

Also known as Arctocyonid, Arctocyonids, Arctocyoninae.