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  2. Carnassial - Wikipedia

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    Carnassial teeth infections are common in domestic dogs. They can present as abscesses (a large swollen lump under the eye). Extraction or root canal procedure (with or without a crown) of the tooth is necessary to ensure that no further complications occur, as well as pain medication and antibiotics .

  3. Creodonta - Wikipedia

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    In creodonts, either the first upper and second lower molars, or the second upper and third lower molars, were the primary carnassials, and the rear teeth formed a carnassial series. This structure committed them to eating meat almost exclusively, which may have limited their ability to exploit mesocarnivore and omnivore ecological niches ...

  4. Canis - Wikipedia

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    Thus, researchers can use the strength of the mandibular symphysis in fossil carnivore specimens to determine what kind of hunter it was – a pack hunter or a solitary hunter – and even how it consumed its prey. The mandibles of canids are buttressed behind the carnassial teeth to crack bones with their post-carnassial teeth (molars M2 and M3).

  5. Ferae - Wikipedia

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    However, these mammals are distinguished between themselves based on the position of the carnassial teeth and the number of molars. The carnassial teeth of the Carnivoramorpha are located in P 4 and m 1, in Oxyaenodonta are M 1 and m 2, and in Hyaenodonta and close relatives are M 2 and m 3. This appears to be a case of a possible evolutionary ...

  6. Carnivoramorpha - Wikipedia

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    The carnassial teeth of the Carnivoramorpha are upper premolar P4 and lower molar m1. [ 6 ] Comparison of carnassial teeth of a carnivoran ( wolf ), a hyaenodontid ( Hyaenodon ) and an oxyaenid ( Oxyaena )

  7. Thylacosmilidae - Wikipedia

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    Thylacosmilidae is an extinct family of metatherian predators, related to the modern marsupials, which lived in South America between the Miocene and Pliocene epochs. Like other South American mammalian predators that lived prior to the Great American Biotic Interchange, these animals belonged to the order Sparassodonta, which occupied the ecological niche of many eutherian mammals of the ...

  8. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    In French, les objets trouvés, short for le bureau des objets trouvés, means the lost-and-found, the lost property. outré out of the ordinary, unusual. In French, it means outraged (for a person) or exaggerated, extravagant, overdone (for a thing, esp. a praise, an actor's style of acting, etc.); in that second meaning, belongs to "literary ...

  9. Viverridae - Wikipedia

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    Viverridae is a family of small to medium-sized feliform mammals, comprising 14 genera with 33 species.This family was named and first described by John Edward Gray in 1821. [3]