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creodont

n. A member of the extinct ''Creodonta'' order of mammals that lived from the Paleocene to the Pliocene epoch.

Usage examples of "creodont".

The explorer, Roy Chapman Andrews, found the fossilized skull of a creodont in Asia which was thirty-four inches long.

The creodont belonged in the Eocene epoch, because the creodont was fitted for life in the Eocene epoch.

In the age of mammoths, to see a creodont would be as startling, and as impossible, as seeing a dinosaur grazing in an Indiana cow pasture today.

The monstrous creodont would lay about among them, crushing and mangling.