UW1445 - Creodonta, Skull

Description

Period/Epoch: Cenozoic/ Oligocene Rock Formation: White River General Taxonomy: Mammalia>Creodonta Creodonta is an extinct group of carnivorous mammals that were once thought to be ancestral to modern Carnivora. These were the dominant carnivorous mammals in the Cenozoic, and this particular animal lived in the Oligocene (33-23 million years ago). This is a model of the skull. Scanned with the David SLS-2