Mesonychia ("middle claws") is an extinct taxon of small- to large-sized carnivorous ungulates related to artiodactyls. Mesonychians first appeared in...
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reassigned to its own family Andrewsarchidae, but retained within the order Mesonychia. After that, Paratriisodon was synonymized with Andrewsarchus and the...
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artiodactyls, close relatives rather than direct ancestors. Other studies define Mesonychia as basal to all ungulates, occupying a position between Perissodactyla...
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Kuldana Formation (section Mesonychia)
The Kuldana Formation is a fossil-bearing geological formation of Lutetian (Early Eocene) age which crops out in northern Pakistan. The abundant fossil...
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Lucas & T.E. Williamson (2000). "A new specimen of Ankalagon (Mammalia, Mesonychia) and evidence of sexual dimorphism in mesonychians". Journal of Vertebrate...
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Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: †Mesonychia Family: †Mesonychidae Genus: †Mesonyx Cope, 1872 Species Mesonyx lanius...
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likely originated in Asia. It was the last surviving representative of Mesonychia and became extinct in the early Oligocene. Mongolestes is distinct from...
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†Notoungulata Order: Perissodactyla Clade: Paraxonia Order: †Arctocyonia? Order: †Mesonychia? Family: †Periptychidae? Order: Artiodactyla (including Cetacea) Synonyms...
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perissodactyls, though in recent studies this clade was found to be polyphyletic) Mesonychia (natural clade, though several members, such as genus Andrewsarchus, are...
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recently, these animals have been thought to be the ancestors of the orders Mesonychia and Cetartiodactyla, although some morphological studies have suggested...
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"Postcranial Skeleton of the Early Eocene Mesonychid Pachyaena (Mammalia: Mesonychia)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 15 (2): 401–430. Bibcode:1995JVPal...
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Polydolopimorphia, and the Dinocerata. Large carnivores include the wolf-like Mesonychia, such as Ankalagon and Sinonyx. Though there was an explosive diversification...
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309–323. Gingerich, P.D. (1998). "15. Paleobiological perspectives on Mesonychia, Archaeoceti, and the origin of whales" (PDF). In Thewissen, J. G. M....
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List of prehistoric mammals (section Order †Mesonychia)
This is an incomplete list of prehistoric mammals. It does not include extant mammals or recently extinct mammals. For extinct primate species, see: list...
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Gingerich, P. D.; Chen, Liezu (1995). "Skull of a New Mesonychid (Mammalia, Mesonychia) from the Late Paleocene of China" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology...
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Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: †Mesonychia Family: †Mesonychidae Genus: †Jiangxia Zhang et al., 1979 Species: †J...
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periptychids, Goniacodon and Eoconodon sister to the Carnivoramorpha-Mesonychia clade, most other genera allied with creodonts and palaeoryctidans. This...
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Formation. Lopatin, Alexey (January 1997). "New Oligocene Didymoconidae (Mesonychia, Mammalia) from Mongolia and Kazakhstan". Paleontological Journal. 31...
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Triisodon (category Mesonychia)
genus of the family Triisodontidae, one of the three families within Mesonychia (the other two being Mesonychidae and Hapalodectidae). Other North American...
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authors have assigned the family to the abandoned order Insectivora, Mesonychia, Arctocyonia, Palaeoryctoidea, Leptictida or even placed it in its own...
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Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: †Mesonychia Family: †Mesonychidae Genus: †Mongolonyx Szalay & Gould, 1966 Species...
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been proposed for several other extinct groups of mammals, including Mesonychia and Dinocerata. Family Arctocyonidae (possibly polyphyletic assemblage)...
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(ónux, ónukhos), ὀνύχιον (onúkhion), ὀνύχινος, ὀνυχίζω hapalonychia, Mesonychia, onychectomy, onycholysis, onychomancy, onychomycosis, onychophagia, onychophagy...
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Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: †Mesonychia Family: †Mesonychidae Genus: †Dissacus Cope, 1881 Type species †Dissacus...
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Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: †Mesonychia Family: †Mesonychidae Genus: †Harpagolestes Species H. immanis H. koreanicus...
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Williamson, Thomas E. (2000). "A new specimen of Ankalagon (Mammalia, Mesonychia) and evidence of sexual dimorphism in mesonychians". Journal of Vertebrate...
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Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: †Mesonychia Family: †Mesonychidae Genus: †Synoplotherium Cope, 1872 Type species †Synoplotherium...
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Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: †Mesonychia Family: †Mesonychidae Genus: †Yantanglestes Ideker and Yan, 1980 Type...
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Hapalodectidae (category Mesonychia)
Gingerich, Philip D. (1989). "New hapalodectid Hapalorestes lovei (Mammalia, Mesonychia) from the early middle Eocene of northwestern Wyoming". Contributions...
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