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creodont Palæont.|ˈkriːəʊdɒnt|
[f. mod.L. Creodonta (E. D. Cope 1875, in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1875, 446), f. Gr. κρέας flesh + ὀδοντ-, ὀδούς tooth.]
A member of the Creodonta, a sub-order of extinct carnivorous mammals, which lived during the Palæocene, Eocene, and Oligocene epochs. Also attrib. or as adj.
1891Flower & Lydekker Mammals 607 The more typical Creodonts appear..to be..closely related to the true Carnivora. 1903H. Johnston Brit. Mammals 115 No Creodont..has ever been discovered which possessed more than three true molars. Ibid. 188 The Creodont Carnivores. 1968A. S. Romer Procession of Life xv. 245 The Palaeocene and Eocene epochs..saw the rise of a variety of archaic flesh-eaters, often grouped (there were several families of them) as the creodonts. |