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Title: The age of mammals in Europe, Asia and North America
Identifier: ageofmammalsineu00osbo (find matches)
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935
Subjects: Mammals, Fossil; Paleontology
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company
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THE EOCENE OF EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA 155 polyprotodont marsupials in this country. Among the Carnivora-Creo- donta, we find three famihes, the oxyienids, hysenodontids, and mesonychids, the last developing into animals of formidable size. The Insectivora are highly varied, including six families, four of which are now extinct, while two are doubtfully compared with the modern moles (Talpidae) and tenrecs (Centetidae) as well as with the tupaiids or
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Fig. 5G. — Skeleton of Uuitdthcriuin (mirahilc), the timljlypod successor of Pantolambda and Coryphodon. Uintatherium Zone, Upper Bridger. (See Fig. 58.) In the American Museum of Natural History. After Osborn. tree shrews. The peculiar herbivorous Tillodontia apparently become ex- tinct in Tilhlherium of the Bridger. The archaic edentates with enameled teeth (Taeniodonta) survive into the Lower Bridger only (Stylinodon). Of the archaic Ungulata the phenacodonts have all disappeared, but the ambly)wd stock is apparently flourishing and reappears in the imposing Uintatherium of the Middle Bridger. In the Middle Eocene the ratio of archaic and modernized genera and species of mammals is as follows: Genera Species 15 35 57 146 72 181 Archaic mammals Modernized mammals Thus there is for the first time a decided predominance of the modern- ized over the archaic forms. Among what we have been regarding as the more modern types, the arboreal primates now include two families (Anap-

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  • booksubject:Mammals_Fossil
  • booksubject:Paleontology
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