Which God is present in Khajuraho temple. Current thinking is that Hapalodectinae should be placed in . Like the Paleocene family Arctocyonidae, mesonychids were once viewed as primitive carnivorans, and the diet of most genera probably included meat or fish. protocetids and the later cetaceans. The reason why is attributable to the way the whales were chewing. It was originally discovered in the 1990s and was named by Philip Gingerich in 1994. These included hearing systems evolved for underwater communications and navigation and completely new ways of locomotion, first as amphibians and then as fully developed marine animals. [RETURNTOTEXT], [27] Carroll, (1988), 523-24; Gingerich, et al., (1990): 250. Its forelimbs were equipped with fingers and small hooves. Lacking a cogent argument that Basilosaurus isis actually The hind feet of Ambulocetus, however, were clearly adapted for swimming. Limbs and tail: Description; Did it swim? dolphins, and porpoises). Mesonychids have often been reconstructed as resembling wolves, albeit superficially, but they would have appeared very different in life. 156. "Look at what changed first, the teeth.