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Daeodon shoshonensis life restoration Daeodon (Dinohyus) hollandi, complete skeleton from the Agate Springs Fossil Quarry in Nebraska. See text for nomenclature history. Daeodon is an extinct genus of entelodont even-toed ungulates that inhabited North America about 29 to 15.97 million years ago during the latest Oligocene and earliest Miocene.
The Miocene (/ ˈ m aɪ. ə s iː n,-oʊ-/ MY-ə-seen, -oh-) [6] [7] is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the name comes from the Greek words μείων (meíōn, "less") and καινός (kainós, "new") [8] [9] and means "less recent" because it has 18% fewer modern marine invertebrates ...
Miocene mammals of South America (1 C, 227 P) B. Miocene bats ... Miocene Artiodactyla (151 P) F. Fossil cetaceans misidentified as reptiles (3 P) M. Miocene ...
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. Originally thought to be a single group of animals ancestral to the modern Carnivora , this order is now usually considered a polyphyletic assemblage of two ...
Simbakubwa, like other hyainailourids, probably was a specialist hunter and scavenger that preyed on creatures such as rhinoceroses and early proboscideans.It may have been somewhat less specialized in crushing bone than its later relatives such as Hyainailouros.
The dabbling duck Matanas enrightii remains poorly known as only a few fossils have been found. [1] Palaelodids are ancient relatives of flamingos. The new species from St Bathans (Palaelodus aotearoa) is smaller than, and morphologically distinct from, the Late Oligocene-Early Miocene Palaelodus wilsoni from Australia. [19]
It is of the early to middle Miocene epoch, (19.3 - 13.4 million years ago) in age, in the Neogene Period. [3] It lends its name to the Barstovian North American land mammal age . The sediments are fluvial and lacustrine in origin except for nine layers of rhyolitic tuff. [3]
Pseudaelurus is a prehistoric cat that lived in Europe, Asia and North America in the Miocene between approximately twenty and eight million years ago. It is considered to be a paraphyletic grade ancestral to living felines and pantherines as well as the extinct machairodonts (saber-tooths), and is a successor to Proailurus.