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Carnivoramorpha

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Also known as Carnivoramoepha, Carnivoramomorpha, Carnivoramorph, Carnivoramorphs

Carnivoramorpha ("carnivoran-like forms") is a clade of placental mammals of clade Pan-Carnivora from mirorder Ferae, that includes the modern order Carnivora as well as extinct stem-group relatives that are more closely related to Carnivora proper than to "creodonts".

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Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Pan-Carnivora
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taxon name
Carnivoramorpha
taxon rank
clade
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Category:Carnivoramorpha
Commons category
Carnivoramorpha
temporal range start
Paleocene
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  • General characteristics
  • Classification and phylogeny
  • Traditional classification
  • Revised classification
  • See also
  • References
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Carnivoramorpha ("carnivoran-like forms") is a clade of placental mammals of clade Pan-Carnivora from mirorder Ferae, that includes the modern order Carnivora as well as extinct stem-group relatives that are more closely related to Carnivora proper than to "creodonts".

==General characteristics== The common feature for members of this clade is the presence of the carnassial teeth. The carnassial teeth of the Carnivoramorpha are upper premolar P4 and lower molar m1.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Carnivoramorpha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.