Fauna of Saskatchewan that lived in herds; Limnenetes anceps or a cud chewing plant eating sheep sized hippopotamus; "Hendryomeryx esulcatus", "Leptomeryx" "speciosus" and "L. mammifer" or small hornless ruminant; "Didelphodus serus" or meat eating marsupial about the size of a Virginia opossum or house cat; "Thylacaelurus campester"; "Wallia scalopidens" is a fossilised proscalopid insectivore bat; Auxontodon processus; Microparamys solidus The Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary marks the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event which saw the extinction of many of these prehistoric animals which remain only as fossil remnants. Mammal species differ between the various ecoregions of Saskatchewan. Members of six orders of placental mammals which inhabit Saskatchewan. They
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