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Creodont logo #20023Creodonts were an order of meat-eating mammals that were very common roughly 60 to 30 million years ago; they were the dominant carnivorous mammals during the Tertiary period. They lived in Asia, Europe, Africa, and North America, going extinct 7 million years ago, during the late Miocene. Creodonts were quadrupeds with clawed feet, a small brain, ...
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creodont

creodont logo #21199any of a diverse group of extinct predatory mammals, from the Paleocene to Pleistocene epochs, that constituted the suborder Creodonta, of the order Carnivora, developing along evolutionary lines somewhat parallel to those of the ancestors of modern carnivores and typically having a stocky, doglike body and a long, low skull.
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