Viverravinae

This article is about an extinct subfamily of mammals. For the extant subfamily, see Viverrinae.

Viverravinae
Temporal range: 63.8–39.7 Ma early Paleocene – middle Eocene
skull of Viverravus minutus
lower jaw of Simpsonictis tenuis
Scientific classification Edit this 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
Synonyms
  • Viverravidae (Wortman & Matthew, 1899)
  • Viverravina (Kalandadze & Rautian, 1992)[2]
  • Viverravini (Kalandadze & Rautian, 1992)

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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.