1. The primary diet consisted of approximately six lemur species and two or three spiny tenrec species, along with snakes and small mammals.

2. Andrewsarchus mongoliensis (Osborn 1924; middle Eocene, 45 mya; AMNH 20135; 83cm skull length) was traditionally considered a mesonychid, then an artiodactyl related to entelodonts and whales, Andrewsarchus is here recognized as a giant extinct tenrec known from its skull only