miacid
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From scientific Latin Miacidae (family name), from Miacis (genus name), of uncertain origin.
Noun
[edit]miacid (plural miacids)
- (paleontology) Any member of the Miacidae family of extinct mammals. [from 20th c.]
- 1971, Thomas H. V. Rich, Deltatheridia, Carnivora, and Condylarthra (Mammalia) of the Early Eocene, Paris Basin, France:
- The trenchant talonid is a character of some miacids and distinguishes these teeth from the hyaenodontids and oxyaenids.
- 2016 November 26, Elsa Panciroli, “Rifling through the 'wastebaskets' of palaeontology reveals surprises”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Miacids were long-bodied, had long tails, were pine marten sized or smaller, and some lived in trees while others spent their time on the ground.