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    Oxyaenidae ("sharp hyenas") is a family of extinct carnivorous placental mammals. Traditionally classified in order Creodonta, this group is now classified...
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    crest is absent. The fourth instance of saber-teeth is from the clade Oxyaenidae. The small and slender Machaeroides bore canines that were thinner than...
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    Viverravidae), Arctocyonidae, Leptictidae (now Pseudorhyncocyonidae), Oxyaenidae, Ambloctonidae and Mesonychidae. Cope originally placed creodonts within...
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    Sarkastodon (category Oxyaenidae)
    placental mammals from extinct subfamily Oxyaeninae within extinct family Oxyaenidae, that lived in Asia (in today's China and Mongolia) during the middle...
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    cutting function: either M1/m2 or M2/m3, depending on the family. In Oxyaenidae, it is M1 and m2 that form the carnassials. Among the hyaenodontids it...
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    Machaeroides (category Oxyaenidae)
    placental mammals from extinct subfamily Machaeroidinae within extinct family Oxyaenidae, that lived in North America (Wyoming) from the early to middle Eocene...
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    The largest prehistoric animals include both vertebrate and invertebrate species. Many of them are described below, along with their typical range of size...
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    The Bridger Formation is a geologic formation in southwestern Wyoming. It preserves fossils dating back to the Bridgerian and Uintan stages of the Paleogene...
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    The type genus, Didymoconus, was considered to belong in the family Oxyaenidae when it was initially described in 1924. The family Didymoconidae was...
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    Oxyaenidae...
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