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Definition of Creodonts
1. creodont [n] - See also: creodont
Lexicographical Neighbors of Creodonts
Literary usage of Creodonts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1906)
"The crown exhibits the remains of three distinct cusps corresponding in every
way to those of the less specialized sectorial of many of the creodonts. ..."
2. The Britannica Year Book by Hugh Chisholm (1913)
"These would be ordinally related with the contemporary ancestors of the creodonts,
but would be distinguished chiefly by smaller size and less robust ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1903)
"The early creodonts appear to represent most nearly the central stock from which
most, ... creodonts were the dominant carnívora of the Eocene Epoch, ..."
4. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"The creodonts have been divided into at least six distinct families, of which
but one ... The creodonts foreshadow the true carnivores in a number of ways, ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1895)
"The creodonts fall quite naturally into two sections, one with more or less blunt
... Xo existing forms appear to have been derived from the creodonts with ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1906)
"The crown exhibits the remains of three distinct cusps corresponding in every
way to those of the less specialized sectorial of many of the creodonts. ..."
7. The Britannica Year Book by Hugh Chisholm (1913)
"These would be ordinally related with the contemporary ancestors of the creodonts,
but would be distinguished chiefly by smaller size and less robust ..."
8. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1903)
"The early creodonts appear to represent most nearly the central stock from which
most, ... creodonts were the dominant carnívora of the Eocene Epoch, ..."
9. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"The creodonts have been divided into at least six distinct families, of which
but one ... The creodonts foreshadow the true carnivores in a number of ways, ..."
10. Report of the Annual Meeting (1895)
"The creodonts fall quite naturally into two sections, one with more or less blunt
... Xo existing forms appear to have been derived from the creodonts with ..."
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