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(04-13-2016, 04:52 PM)brotherbear Wrote: Who was truly the biggest terrestrial mammalian predator? Daenodon, Andrewsarchus, or Arctodus simus?
Last I checked A. angustidens (and A. simus if you go by the analyses posted in the other thread) are the largest mammalian predators ever.
The other two species are really hard to get a mass estimate of. They're proportioned like no animal we know of today. Plus, we're missing significant long bone data on them.