Identifier: scienceguide1630amer (find matches)
Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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transverse. In Hycenodon of the Oligocene the trans-verse shear has disappeared completely, the longitudinal shear is con-centrated especially on the third lower and second upper molar,the third upper molar has disappeared, and the teeth are as highlyspecialized for flesh-cutting as those of the living Cats. (See Fig. 3.) Hycenodon lived during the Oligocene epoch and was the last sur-vivor of the Creodonts. In proportions it singularly resembles theThylacine, or Tasmanian Wolf, of the rough bush-land of Tasmania.The head is of very large size, with long jaws and large teeth, adaptedto snapping rather than seizing and holding on to the prey. Thefeet had large, rather blunt claws, not retractile, and the animalappears to have walked on the toes, like the dogs and cats, not rest-ing the sole on the ground as do the bears. (See Fig. 6.) A finelypreserved skeleton and several skulls from the Big Badlands of SouthDakota are mounted in the collection. The largest skull is nearly afoot long.
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FOSSIl CARNIVORA 17 M ESONYCHID 1 Type: Mesonyx, skull etc, Wall-case No. 6. These animals had the limbs and feet specialized for swiffrunning, and the feet tipped with flat hoof-like claws. The teeth quite peculiar, they have no shearing edges, and the crownis composed of three rather high blunt-topped conical cusps. In

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