Miacid

miacids were a group ancestral to modern day carnivorans like bears seals sea lions cats dogs foxes cougars panthers otters weasels wolverines. miacids hunted animals like birds which it will jump up into the air and catch a bird in flight or rodents which it will stalk their prey then pounce on it. it was an apex predator but did have competition from creodont mammals like oxheana. heres how you survive under the reign of creodonts 1. nocturnal vision they were able to navigate their way in the trees when the creodonts would be on the ground. 2. flexible wrists they had movable wrists unlike creodonts which could only move their wrists up and down. 3. intelligence they had the ability to have complex thought and the ability to plane and execute. the miacids not ancestral to carnivorans met their doom at the eocene-oligocene extinction with brontotheres and basilosaurids and the non crocodilian crocodylomorphs.