The well-known plantigrade tread of bears is a primitive characteristic which has survived from their creodont ancestry.
This order, which includes lemurs, monkeys, apes, and man, seems to have sprung from a creodont or insectivorous ancestry in the lower Eocene.
The lateral digits are larger than in Phenacodus, and the metatarsals and the phalanges are slightly curved, which is again a Creodont character as compared to the perfectly straight corresponding bones of Phenacodus.
The Creodont peculiarity of the vertebrae has already been referred to.
The vertebrae show an interesting Creodont peculiarity in the complex interlocking arrangements of the zygapophyses of the dorsal vertebrae.
There are, however, other points of likeness which seem rather to point to a Creodont origin.
Professor Scott suggests their Lemurine or at least Primate relationships, while Cope urged their Creodont affinities.
Even there one of his kinsmen and chief enemies, Usibepu, was allowed to retain the territory allotted to him in 1879.
The creodont genera Stypolophus and Proviverra show some of these modern characters; but it is not till we reach the European Oligocene genus Amphictis, with the dental formula i.
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