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- noun biology An
extinct carnivore of the order Mesonychia
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Another cryptozoologist suggests it may have been a mesonychid, which is a hoofed predator from the Eocene period approx.
July 2009 2009
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Another cryptozoologist suggests it may have been a mesonychid, which is a hoofed predator from the Eocene period approx.
July 2009 2009
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Another cryptozoologist suggests it may have been a mesonychid, which is a hoofed predator from the Eocene period approx.
Creatiary 2009
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Another cryptozoologist suggests it may have been a mesonychid, which is a hoofed predator from the Eocene period approx.
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Another cryptozoologist suggests it may have been a mesonychid, which is a hoofed predator from the Eocene period approx.
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To tease apart different potential evolutionary histories (whether carnivory or water adaptations occurred first; the mesonychid or Indohyus relatedness ideas), Michelle Spaulding, lead author of the study, and colleagues, mapped the evolutionary relationships among more than 80 living and fossil taxa.
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Answer: because there is at least some evidence linking a number of non-mesonychid taxa with Mesonychidae.
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