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| 10 Biggest Mammalian Land Carnivores ever; Excluding Felids, Ursids and pinnipeds | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 16 2018, 08:33 AM (349 Views) | |
| Wild Spirit | Mar 16 2018, 08:33 AM Post #1 |
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Unicellular Organism
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Excluding Felids, Ursids and pinnipeds, what are the 10 biggest mammalian land carnivores ever? I was looking this up and it got a bit confusing. Here’s what I could gather(not all of them are necessarily individual species: Barbourofelis Fricki Dinocrocuta Gigantae Quercylurus Major Amphicyon Ingens Andrewsarchus Hyaenodon Gigas Daedon(Omnivore) Hemicyon(various species) What’s missing? Edited by Wild Spirit, Mar 16 2018, 08:34 AM.
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| Claudiu Constantin Nicolaescu | Mar 18 2018, 03:14 PM Post #2 |
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Heterotrophic Organism
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Hemicyon is an ursid genus. Sarkastodon mongoliensis (family Oxyaenidae) is missing, maybe?
Edited by Claudiu Constantin Nicolaescu, Mar 18 2018, 03:39 PM.
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| Mammuthus | Mar 18 2018, 07:42 PM Post #3 |
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Proboscidean Enthusiast
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I can’t be bothered to put these in order but here are some mammals that are definitely up there: Machairodus horribilis Daeodon shoshonensis Andrewsarchus mongoliensis Megistotherium osteothlastes Sarkastodon mongoliensis Barbourofelis fricki |
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| Wombatman | Mar 18 2018, 08:04 PM Post #4 |
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Herbivore
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Most of these are getting downsized constantly when they get reconstructed again with more accurate proportions, anyway, excluding those groups, I think the biggest terrestrial meat eating mammals (pinnipeds are marine animals btw) would be: Daeodon and Andrewsarchus at around 700 kg The big mesonychians Mongolonyx and Mongolestes (around 500 kg) Some Amphicyon species which are said to weigh more than 500 kg (maybe 700 kg) also Pseudocyon is of a similar size Giant hyaenodonts like Megistotherium (also over 500 kg) Sarkastodon, which would be around 1 m tall and pretty robust, so the size of a polar bear maybe And then, some weight categories under those, there is still lots of big carnivores, like Proborhyaena, Dinocrocuta, Barbourofelis... |
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