Ferae

Creodonta ("meat teeth") is a former order of extinct carnivorous placental mammals that lived from the Early Paleocene (or Late Cretaceous) to the Late Miocene epochs in North America, Eurasia, and Africa. Originally thought to be a single group of animals ancestral to the modern Carnivora, this order is now usually considered a polyphyletic assemblage of two different groups, the oxyaenids and the hyaenodonts, not a natural group. Oxyaenids are first known from the early Paleocene of North America, while hyaenodonts hail from the late Paleocene, or Late Cretaceous, of Europe.

Ferae ( , , "wild beasts") is a mirorder of placental mammals in grandorder Ferungulata, that groups together clades Pan-Carnivora (that includes carnivorans and their fossil relatives, such as hyaenodonts) and Pholidotamorpha (pangolins and their fossil relatives).