Palaeonictinae

Palaeonictinae; Temporal range: 57.4–50.5 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N late Paleocene to early Eocene
	skull of Palaeonictis occidentalis
	parts of lower jaw of; Ambloctonus sinosus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Clade:	Pan-Carnivora
Order:	†Oxyaenodonta
Family:	†Oxyaenidae
Subfamily:	†Palaeonictinae; Denison, 1938
Type genus
	†Palaeonictis; de Blainville, 1842
Genera
	†Ambloctonus; †Dipsalodon(paraphyletic genus); †Palaeonictis;
Synonyms
	list of synonyms: Ambloctinae (Solé, 2020); Ambloctonidae (Cope, 1877); Ambloctoninae (Cope, 1877); Amblyctonidae (Cope, 1877); Amphicreodi (Gregory & Hellman, 1939); Palaeonictida (Haeckel, 1895); Palaeonictidae (Osborn, 1892);

Palaeonictinae ("ancient weasels") is an extinct subfamily of placental mammals from extinct family Oxyaenidae, that lived from the late Paleocene to early Eocene of Europe and North America.^[7]^[8]^[9]

Classification and phylogeny

Palaeonictinae Temporal range: 57.4–50.5 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N late Paleocene to early Eocene

skull of Palaeonictis occidentalis

parts of lower jaw of Ambloctonus sinosus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Clade:	Pan-Carnivora
Order:	†Oxyaenodonta
Family:	†Oxyaenidae
Subfamily:	†Palaeonictinae Denison, 1938^[1]
Type genus
†Palaeonictis de Blainville, 1842
Genera
†Ambloctonus †Dipsalodon^{(paraphyletic genus)} †Palaeonictis
Synonyms
list of synonyms: Ambloctinae (Solé, 2020)^[2] Ambloctonidae (Cope, 1877)^[3] Ambloctoninae (Cope, 1877) Amblyctonidae (Cope, 1877) Amphicreodi (Gregory & Hellman, 1939)^[4] Palaeonictida (Haeckel, 1895)^[5] Palaeonictidae (Osborn, 1892)^[6]