2024年5月21日 · Miacids are an extinct group of mammalian carnivores that gave rise to cats, bears, dogs, skunks, mongooses, hyenas, and all other felids and canids.

Miacis, genus of extinct carnivores found as fossils in deposits of the late Paleocene Epoch (65.5–55.8 million years ago) to the late Eocene Epoch (55.8–33.9 million years ago) in North …

2013年4月1日 · The study of the “miacids” from Le Quesnoy increases the generic diversity of the “Miacidae” during the beginning of the Early Eocene with the identification of Vassacyon …

2016年7月18日 · Miacis is often heralded as being the progenitor of the Carnivora,‭ ‬one of the main groups of carnivorous mammals that today include predators such as big cats,‭ ‬wolves …

These oldest-known fissipede carnivores are described in detail, the classification is revised, and notes on their probable ecology and known geographic and stratigraphic distribution are …

Here we report on the affinities of two peculiar carnivoraforms from the Chambers Tuff of Trans-Pecos, Texas, that were first described 30 years ago as Miacis cognitus and M. australis.

Self-propelled movement of a cell or organism from one location to another. Component found in mineralized skeletal tissue, (a specialized form of biogenic tissue in which the extracellular …

2018年8月23日 · The miacids persisted until the Oligocene. When they are first recognizable in the fossil record, they show enlarged canine teeth and specialized shearing carnassial teeth. …

The Evolutionary history of the wolf is not totaly clear, but many biologists believe that the wolf developed from primitive carnivores known as miacids. Miacids ranged from gopher-sized to …

Known as miacids, a ferret-like fox-sized creature, they evolved through various stages into Canis Epicyun about eight million years ago--believed to be the ancestor of wolves and foxes.