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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo05amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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FOSSIL CARNIVORA 27 and varied, at the dawn of the Age of Mammals, and the different kinds become more and more specialized throughout the Eocene epoch. Meanwhile the true Carnivores appear in increasing numbers and gradually crowd out the Creodonts until the last of them has disappeared by the end of the Oligocene epoch. In their e\'olution the different Creodont groups specialized on much the same lines of development as those the true Carnivores took Tertiarif y or Age of Mammals
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Quaternary, or Age of Man Eo cene Basal Lower Middle Upper Recent Diagram showing- how the true Carnii/cra crowded cut the Greodonta cr T^rimitivc Carnivora during tAe Tertiari/Tiriod. ^^^^^^^i^ Creodonta. Y/y/yA True Camirora. FIQ. 8 afterwards. They were more or less wolf-like, weasel-like, cat- like or bear-like, according to the nature of their food and the manner of attacking their prey. Fossil remains of flesh-eating animals are by no means as common as those of Herbivora, and the remains of Creodonts are especially rare, and mostly fragmentary. The great majority have been found in the Eocene fossil fields of the Western United States. This Museum is peculiarly rich in these rare and inter- esting fossils. Out of the 113 American species it possesses all the known specimens of 50 and the types or other good

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