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
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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150 THE AGE OF MAMMALS true Hyoenodon of the Bartonian and Ludian. Northern Asia or Eocene Europe appears to have been the home of the genus Hyoenodon, because these animals do not appear in northern Africa and in North America
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.'^'^.i.V Fig. 52. — The New and Old World family of mesoiiychid creodonts, known in the Lower Eocene of Europe and in the Lower to Upper Eocene of North America. Above : Skeleton of the Middle Eocene (Bridger) Dromocyon vorax, in the Yale Museum. Below : Restoration of a similar form. After original by Charles R. Knight, in the American Museum of Natural History. until the Lower Oligocene. They are typically cursorial or running creo- donts or primitive carnivores, capable of traveling great distances, and thus finally enjoying a very wide geographic range, before extinction.

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