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Definition of Creodont
1. Noun. A member of the extinct ''Creodonta'' order of mammals that lived from the Paleocene to the Pliocene epoch. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Creodont
1. an extinct carnivore [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Creodont
Literary usage of Creodont
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)
"It, therefore, follows that a creodont ancestry is the only possible or logical
solution of the problem. As to the particular family of creodonta from which ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"I; the teeth reckoned as molars corresponding to those of the creodont Carnívora.
The single-rooted check-teeth are regarded as due, not to the division of ..."
3. The Britannica Year Book by Hugh Chisholm (1913)
"... although showing creodont and Insectivore resemblances, are also more nearly
related with the Metatheria. The primitive Marsupial skull on the whole ..."
4. A New Fossil Pinniped (Desmatophoca Oregonensis) from the Miocene of the by Thomas Condon (1906)
"It has been more recently suggested by Wortman that Pinnipeds may have been an
off shoot from a creodont ancestry.* "Perhaps from some as yet undiscovered ..."
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