Viverravinae
Viverravinae ("ancestors of viverrids") is an extinct subfamily of mammals from extinct family Viverravidae, that lived from the early Palaeocene to the middle Eocene in North America, Asia and Europe.[3]
| Viverravinae | |
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| skull of Viverravus minutus | |
| lower jaw of Simpsonictis tenuis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | Carnivoramorpha |
| Superfamily: | †Viverravoidea |
| Family: | †Viverravidae |
| Subfamily: | †Viverravinae Wortman & Matthew, 1899[1] |
| Type genus | |
| †Viverravus Marsh, 1872 | |
| Genera | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Classification and phylogeny
Classification
- Subfamily: †Viverravinae (Wortman & Matthew, 1899)
- Genus: †Simpsonictis (MacIntyre, 1962)
- †Simpsonictis jaynanneae (Rigby, 1980)
- †Simpsonictis pegus (Gingerich & Winkler, 1985)
- †Simpsonictis tenuis (Simpson, 1935)
- Genus: †Viverravus (Marsh, 1872)
- †Viverravus acutus (Matthew & Granger, 1915)
- †Viverravus gracilis (Marsh, 1872)
- †Viverravus lawsoni (Hooker, 2010)
- †Viverravus laytoni (Gingerich & Winkler, 1985)
- †Viverravus lutosus (Gazin, 1952)
- †Viverravus minutus (Wortman, 1901)
- †Viverravus politus (Matthew & Granger, 1915)
- †Viverravus rosei (Polly, 1997)
- †Viverravus sicarius (Matthew, 1909)
- †Viverravus sp. [V11141] (Meng, 1998)
- †Viverravus sp. [Locality Group 2, Washakie Basin, Wyoming] (Tomiya, 2021)
- Genus: †Viverriscus (Beard & Dawson, 2009)
- †Viverriscus omnivorus (Beard & Dawson, 2009)
- Genus: †Simpsonictis (MacIntyre, 1962)
References
- Wortman, J. L.; Matthew, W. D. (1899). "The ancestry of certain members of the Canidae, Viverridae, and Procyonidae". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 12: 109–138. hdl:2246/1535. OCLC 46687698.
- Kalandadze, N. N. and S. A. Rautian (1992.) "Systema mlekopitayushchikh i istorygeskaya zoogeographei [The system of mammals and historical zoogeography]." Sbornik Trudov Zoologicheskogo Muzeya Moskovskogo Goschdarstvennoro Universiteta 29:44–152.
- McKenna, Malcolm C.; Bell, Susan K. (1997). Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11012-9. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
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