Extinct subfamily of carnivores
This article is about an extinct subfamily of mammals. For the extant subfamily, see
Viverrinae .
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]
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)
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 .
†Afro‑Arabian clade
other representatives
ichnotaxa of Hyaenodonta